Vol. 13 No. 050 (2024): Issue 050

غلاف العدد 50 من دورية عمران

Issue 50 of Omran for Social Sciences and Humanities (Autumn 2024) includes the following studies and articles: “Introduction: Water Ways (Critical Studies in the History of the Arabian Gulf and Palestine)” (Ismail Nashef); “The Sailing Scribe: Mansur Al-Khariji and the Oceanic Worlds of the Gulf” (Fahad Ahmad Bishara); “The Drought Years: The Forgotten Economic Transformations in Gulf History” (Amna Abdulla Sadiq); “The Sea vs. the Desert: Rahmah ibn Jabir and the Dialectic of Piracy and Maritime Influence” (Faozi Al-Goidi); “Star-Tied Water: Tracing Life in a Colonized Palestinian Village during the Time of the Anthropocene” (Yasmeen Qadan); “The Illusion of the Tunisian Exception: Civil Society and Democratic Transition” (Mehdi Mabrouk); “Fertility Theories: Are Demographers Neutral?” (Henri Leridon); “An Arab Assessment of Social Media’s Socio-Cultural Impacts: Analysis of the 2022 Arab Opinion Index Results” (Adel Maalel); “The Sea History in Tunisia and Its Memory in the Modern Period: Between the Oral and The Written” (Hichem Charfi); “My Brother, My Land: A Story from Palestine” (Sidi Elmeghari); “Featured Books” (Omran Editorial Board).

Published: 2024-10-01

Studies

  • The Illusion of the Tunisian Exception: Civil Society and Democratic Transition

    Author: Mehdi Mabrouk (Author)
    111-135

    The Tunisian democratic transition remained a significant topic for researchers, many of whom considered it a notable exception. Several arguments have attempted to prove this thesis. However,...

Special Dossier

  • Introduction: Water Ways (Critical Studies in the History of the Arabian Gulf and Palestine)

    Author: Ismail Nashef (Author)
    7-16

    عقد معهد الدوحة للدراسات العليا ورباعية قطر – متاحف قطر خلال الفترة 18-20 شباط/ فبراير 2024 مؤتمرًا بعنوان "طرق المياه: معارف وجماليات". تناول المؤتمر الدراسات المائية Water Studies في أعقاب...

  • The Sailing Scribe: Mansur Al-Khariji and the Oceanic Worlds of the Gulf

    Author: Fahad Ahmad Bishara (Author)
    17-34

    How did Gulf nakhudas (pearling boat captain) produce the routes they traversed around the Indian Ocean? This article draws on the writings of one Kuwaiti nakhuda , Mansur bin Ibrahim Al-Khariji...

  • The Drought Years: The Forgotten Economic Transformations in Gulf History

    Author: Amna Abdulla Sadiq (Author)
    35-52

    This article discusses a significant phase of transformation in the history of trade in the Gulf and the Indian Ocean, resulting from the expansion of World War II into the passages and ports of...

  • The Sea vs. the Desert: Rahmah ibn Jabir and the Dialectic of Piracy and Maritime Influence

    Author: Faozi Al-Goidi (Author)
    53-83

    The influence of Rahmah bin Jabir began to shape in the maritime sphere of the Gulf, with his network operating around three key centres along the shores without a clear political domain on...

  • Star-Tied Water: Tracing Life in a Colonized Palestinian Village during the Time of the Anthropocene

    Author: Yasmeen Qadan (Author)
    85-108

    This article traces practices that ensure the continuity of life in the Palestinian village, approaching practitioners intimately through a methodology of slowness. It seeks to deconstruct the...

Translation

  • Fertility Theories: Are Demographers Neutral?

    Author: Henri Leridon (Author)
    139-188

    This article retraces the history of fertility theories as illustrated by 23 founding texts grouped together in a single volume Les théories de la fécondité (2014). Until recently, no reliable...

Book Reviews

  • The Sea History in Tunisia and Its Memory in the Modern Period: Between the Oral and The Written

    Author: Hichem Charfi (Author)
    209-217

    Book Title: The Sea History in Tunisia and Its Memory in the Modern Period: Between the Oral and The Written . Author: As-Saghira Ben Hamida. Publisher: Doha/ Beirut: Arab Center for Research...

  • My Brother, My Land: A Story from Palestine

    Author: Sidi Elmeghari (Author)
    219-228

    Book Title: My Brother, My Land: A Story from Palestine . Author: Sami Hermez (with Sireen Sawalha). Publisher: Stanford, CA: Redwood Press. Date of Publication: 2024. Pages: 328.

Reports

  • An Arab Assessment of Social Media’s Socio-Cultural Impacts: Analysis of the 2022 Arab Opinion Index Results

    Author: Adel Maalel (Author)
    191-206

    The article analyses public opinion trends in the Arab region regarding the socio-cultural impacts of social media, based on the results of the eighth survey of the Arab Index conducted by the...

Book Presentations

  • Featured Books

    Author: Omran Editorial Board (Author)
    231-235

    عروض كتب من إعداد هيئة التحرير: - أبيغيل أندروس، رجال منفيّون: كيف يكابد المهاجرون عنف الترحيل (بيركيلي: دار نشر جامعة كاليفورنيا، 2023). - ديبورا بيللو وسوزان شيلد (محرران)، أفريقيا...