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  Issue 030

  Vol. 8 No. 030 (2019)

  Issue 30 of Omran for Social Sciences and Humanities (Autumn 2019) includes the following studies and articles: “Toward Shaping a Vision for the Development of Jerusalem’s Sub-urbans: Al-Zaiem, Anata, Al-Ram and Kafer Aqab as Example” (Rassem Khamaisi); “Political participation in the experience of the youth of the 20th February Movement Morocco” (Hafsa Afailal, Francesco Vacchiano); “An Introduction to the Political Economy of the Occupied Palestinian Territory” (Tariq Dana); “The Idea of Poverty and the Reality of Being Poor” (Manoubi Ghabbach); “Migration of Religious Studies Students from West Africa to Souss in Southern Morocco: Politics, Religious Education and the Production of Elites” (Rachid Benbih); “On Face-Work: An Analysis of Ritual Elements in Social Interaction” (Erving Goffman); “Diary of the Siege of Beirut: Leaving Our Last Tent (Book Review)” (Ahmad Iz Addin As’ad); “Book Review: Introduction à la sociologie de l’imaginaire (Introduction to the Sociology of the Imaginary” (Yassine Atana).

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  Issue 029

  Vol. 8 No. 029 (2019)

  Issue 29 of Omran for Social Sciences and Humanities (Summer 2019) includes the following studies and articles: “Experimentation between Psychology and Neuroscience: One Paradigm, Various Techniques, and Similar Results” (Benaissa Zarhbouch); “Macro-Micro: On The Necessity of Explaining the Mechanisms of Transition between the Micro and the Macro” (Ali Jafry); “The Intentional Explanation of Social Behaviour and the Conditions of its Credibility” (Hassane Hjij); “Virtual Society and Renewing Approaches to Sociological Research: Towards Building a Model to Study Digital Interactions” (Mahjouba Kaoukaou); “The Positioning of Geography between Natural and Social Sciences: Which Methodology for Which Topic?” (El Hassane EL Mahdad, Rkia Ait Ouaziz, M’barek Bouzalim, Mohamed Jadaoui, Lakbir Ouhajou); “Islam in the thought of the Tunisian sociologist Abdel Wahab Bouhediba and his book Islam: Openness and Transcendence (Islām Infitāḥ wa Tajāwuz)” (Abdellatif Hermassi); “Militarizing the Nation: The Army, Business, and Revolution in Egypt” (Abdel-Fattah Mady); “Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age” (Ihab Maharmeh); “The Human Right to Dominate” (Shaymaa Shehab).

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  Issue 028

  Vol. 7 No. 028 (2019)

  Issue 28 of Omran for Social Sciences and Humanities (Spring 2019) includes the following studies and articles: “Transformations of Manama: Equations of Demography, Islamization and Commercialization” (Nader Kadhim); “The New Gulf Urban: Test Beds, Work-arounds, and the Limits of Enacted Cities” (Harvey Molotch, Davide Ponzini); “A Primer to Social Conflict in Kuwait: Voting on Economic Legislation in the Kuwaiti National Assembly 2006-2012” (Luai Ali); “Social Networks and Communication Culture in Hybrid Societies: A Reading in the Role of Twitter in Qatar” (Ahmed Atyq); “A Theory of Structure: Duality, Agency, and Transformation” (William H. Sewell, Jr); “Modernism in the Arabian Gulf: Transformations of Society and the State” (Abdou Moussa); “Bedouins into Bourgeois: Remaking Citizens for Globalization” (Courtney Freer); “Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East” (Courtney Freer); “Exporting Wealth and Entrenching Alienation: A History of Productive Imbalance in the Gulf States” (Baqer Alnajjar).

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  Issue 027

  Vol. 7 No. 027 (2019)

  Issue 27 of Omran for Social Sciences and Humanities (Winter 2019) includes the following studies and articles: “Unfinished Dream: A Critique of Samir Amin” (Isam al Khafaji); “Can Information Technology Bring Capitalism to an End?” (Ibrahim El-Issawy); “Protest and Rage through Social Networks: Towards Renewed Forms of Political Participation in Algeria” (Aissa Merah); “Ecology of Poverty: An Anthropological Approach to Adaptive Dynamics and Living Practices” (Fouzia Borj); “Producing Marginalization: School Dropouts and Social Exclusion among Youth in Tunisian Border Areas” (Mohamed Ali Ben Zina); “A Reading in Azmi Bisharaʼs Book Sects in Historical Context” (Hussam abu hamed); “Prospects for Sectarianism Studies after Sect, Sectarianism and Imagined Sects” (Haider Saeed); “On the Sectarian Reproduction of the Sect The Theoretical, the Socio-Political and the Historical” (Mohammed Jamal Barout); “The Concept of Sectarianism in Sect, Sectarianism, and Imagined Sects by Azmi Bishara: From Redefining to Conceptualisation: A Reading and Analysis of the Semantic Field” (Mehdi Mabrouk); “Social Capital: Its Origins and Applications in Modern Sociology” (Alejandro Portes).

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  Issue 026

  Vol. 7 No. 026 (2018)

  Issue 26 of Omran for Social Sciences and Humanities (Autumn 2018) includes the following studies and articles: “Theoretical Concepts in Population Migration: a Comparative Analytical Study” (Hashim Nimah Fayad); “Cross-cultural Psychology and Psychology of Acculturation: Analytical Study of Identity Strategies and Acculturation” (Azzam Amin); “Arab Universities and the Challenges of Social Change” (Adnan ElAmine); “Towards Social Sciences in the Arab Context: The Need for Grounded Theory” (Basem Mahmud); “The Image of Women in the Discourse of Miracle and Religious Practices in Morocco” (Abdelhadi Arabe); “Social Movements and Protest in Transitional Contexts: The Maghrebi Case” (Abderrahmane Rachik); “The Strength of Weak Ties” (Mark Granovetter); “Review: BP Energy Outlook 2018” (Mona Abdelhady); “Copts and the Security State: Violence, Coercion, and Sectarianism in Contemporary Egypt.” (Shady Lewis); “Vegetarian Morocco: 15th-18th Century, History and Biology” (Mohammed Meziane).

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  Issue 025

  Vol. 7 No. 025 (2018)

  Issue 25 of Omran for Social Sciences and Humanities (Summer 2018) includes the following studies and articles: “Feminism in Iraq: Between NGOization, Ethnosectarian Violence and the Struggle for a Civil State” (Zahra Ali); “Between Religion, Gender, and Colonialism: Women Leaders and Activists in the Islamic Movement within the Green Line” (Areen Hawari); “The Image of Religious Women in the Politico– Religious Discourse in Morocco” (Mourad Jaddi); “Illegal Migration of Algerian Women as an Act of Resistance: A Sociological Study of the Phenomenon of the Harragat” (Sabiha Kime); “Sociology of Education and the Question of Gender: From Social Inequalities to Gender Disparities” (Faouzi Boukhriss); “Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay on Phenomenology and Feminist Theory” (Judith Butler); “International Conference on Social Movements and Protest in Transitional Contexts” (Mehrez Drissi); “Work. The Last 1,000 Years” (Sabah Alnasseri); “The Struggle for the State of Jordan: The Social Origins of Alliances in the Middle East” (Hatem Alsarairah); “A Social Revolution: Politics and the Welfare State in Iran” (Fatima Alsmadi); “Jihad in the West: The Rise of Militant Salafism” (Ahmad Iz Addin As’ad).

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  Issue 024

  Vol. 6 No. 024 (2018)

  صدر العدد 24 من دورية «عمران للعلوم الاجتماعية والإنسانية» (ربيع 2018)، ويتضمّن الدراسات والمقالات الآتية: «تاريخ العراق ومجتمعه بين حنّا بطاطو وعلي الوردي» (دينا رزق خوري)؛ «الإصلاح الديني اليوم في القرى المغربية:» (عبد الرحمان فضلي)؛ «اللاجئات السوريات في تونس: تجربة الهجرة القسرية وصعوبة الاستقرار» (سمية عبد اللطيف)؛ «مراجعة تقرير» (محمد عبد الحي عيسى)؛ «زَمَنُ المُهَاجِر» (راناجيت غُهَا)؛ «الفردية والإسلاموية والديمقراطية: قراءة سوسيولوجية للتحولات في العالم العربي» (محمد أبي سمرا)؛ «تاريخ الجنسانية، الجزء الرابع: اعترافات البدن» (محمد بـكّـاي)؛ «ثورة بلا ثوّار: مسعًى لفهم الربيع العربي» (عبده موسى)؛ «"دولة الخلافة": تفكيك البنية الأيديولوجية والرمزية والسياسية لـ "داعش"» (خليل العناني)؛ «تفكيك الاشتراكية العربية» (حازم رحاحلة)؛ «الفساد النسقي والدولة الاستبدادية: حالة الجزائر، 1962-2016» (خالد منّه).

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  Issue 023

  Vol. 6 No. 023 (2018)

  Issue 23 of Omran for Social Sciences and Humanities (Winter 2018) includes the following studies and articles: “Sects and Sectarianism: from the Word and its Implications to the Analytical Sociological Term” (Azmi Bishara); “A Historical Sociology Approach to Understanding Post-Revolution Disagreement in the Arab Countries” (Raymond Hinnebusch); “Revolution and the History of the Margins in Egypt: An Attempt in Historical Sociology (Thailand as a Comparative Case Study)” (Hani Awad); “Family Violence in Male Narratives: Results and Implications” (Azza Charara Baydoun); “Socio-Anthropological Debate on the Contribution of Women to the Reproduction of Patriarchy” (Khalid Chahbar); “Study of the Vulnerable Middle Class in Morocco: A New Approach” (Saadeddine Igamane); “Capital in the Twenty-First Century: A Critical Review” (Samir Seifan); “Fifty Years of Post-Colonial Sociology in Maghreb” (Tayeb Chenntouf); “Social Sciences in the Arab World: Forms of Presence - A Primary Reading in the First Arab Social Sciences Report” (Mohamed Saadi); “Committing Suicide by Self-immolation among Unemployed Tunisian Youth” (Elmehdi Lahmamed); “On the State: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1989-1992” (Nassir Mrouwwa).

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  Issue 022

  Vol. 6 No. 022 (2017)

  Issue 22 of Omran for Social Sciences and Humanities (Autumn 2017) includes the following studies and articles: “Protest in Morocco and the Deprivation Thesis: The Need to Expand Interpretive Approaches” (Elhabib Stati Zineddine).

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  Issue 021

  Vol. 6 No. 021 (2017)

  Issue 21 of Omran for Social Sciences and Humanities (Summer 2017) includes the following studies and articles: “Young Arab Women and the Promised Paradise: An Effort at Understanding Female Migration” (Aicha Teyeb); “Arab Youth Migration to the EU: A Critical Reading of European Migration Policy” (Mohamed Khachani); “The Demographic Gift in the Arab World: a Blessing or a Time Bomb for Morocco ?” (Ibrahim Elmorchid); “The Image of Young Arab Refugees in the German Press: Der Spiegel as a Case Study” (Zouheir Soukah); “Skilled Migration from Algeria 1991-2015: Tapping the Benefits” (Chakr Drif); “The Lost and Fractured Identities of Third Generation Immigrant Youth in Belgium: A Case Study of the Borgerhout Neighbourhood of Antwerp” (Mohamed Saadi); “The Sociology and Anthropology of Genocide” (Adam Jones); “The International Conference “Migration Movements in the Maghreb and their Current Expansions”” (Brahim El Kadiri Boutchich); “The Concept of a People According to Conservative Trends and Emancipatory Views” (Hussain Bokubar); “The State and the Market Economy: A Reading of Privatization Policy and its Global and Arab Experiences” (Tayssir Raddawi).

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  Issue 020

  Vol. 5 No. 020 (2017)

  Issue 20 of Omran for Social Sciences and Humanities (Spring 2017) includes the following studies and articles: “On the Etymology of Arabic Terms in the Contemporary Social Sciences” (Morad Diani); “The Arab City and the Challenges of Urbanization in Changing Communities: Greater Cairo as a Model” (Fathy Mohamad Mosilhi); “Childhood and Instilling Values: Deconstructing an Agricultural Metaphor A Critical Study of Theories of Value Socialization” (Nader Kadhim); “Constraints to the Capacity of Moroccan Industries to Receive Foreign Direct Investment” (Mohamed Azeroual); “From the Sacred to the Profane: How the Army Shattered the Public Space in Arab Spring Cities (the Case of Tahrir Square)” (Ali A. Alraouf); “The Problem of Building a Unified National Army in a Regionally Divided Society” (Sumaya Abdulkadir Sheikh Mahmud); “Before Theory Comes Theorizing, or, How to Make Social Science More Interesting” (Richard Swedberg); “Seminar Report: Arab Public Universities From Where... to Where?” (Frederic Maatouk); “Fuzzy Logic, Humanities and Social Science: An Applied and Theoretical Approach” (Abdelhalim Mahor Bacha); “Acculturation and Cultural Diversity: A Difficult Bid” (Mohammed El Idrissi); “The Virtual and the Revolution” (Nadim Mansouri); “The Role of the Internet in Light of the Emergence of an Arab Civil Society: Discussion of the Book «The Virtual and the Rev” (Shawkat Chtay).

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  Issue 019

  Vol. 5 No. 019 (2017)

  Issue 19 of Omran for Social Sciences and Humanities (Winter 2017) includes the following studies and articles: “Emic and Etic in Re-theorizing «Tribe» A Step toward an Arab Anthropological Discourse” (Abdallah Hammoudi); “Tribal «Belonging» Today Implications and Transformations” (Dale F. Eickelman); “Lamalmin in Beidane Tribal Society” (Salah Eddine Rguibi); “History of the Political Usage of Local Tribal Identity in Iraq State and Sheikhs Serving Each Other” (Karim Hamza); “The Structure of the Mind and the Trifunctional Theory of Georges Dumézil” (yassine Yahyaoui); “Protest in Morocco Dynamic of Struggle and Transformation” (Elhabib Stati Zineddine); “Sociology, Political and Social Issues in Paul Pascon’s Work An Introduction” (Mohammed El Idrissi); “Émique” (Jean-Pierre Olivier De Sardan); “Sufism and Religious Policy in Morocco” (Rachid Jarmouni).

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  Issue 018

  Vol. 5 No. 018 (2016)

  Issue 18 of Omran for Social Sciences and Humanities (Autumn 2016) includes the following studies and articles: “Urban Policies and Social Relations in Morocco” (Abderrahmane Rachik); “Creative Urban Chaos in Cairo’s Spaces after the January 2011 Revolution: The Nile Bridges and Maidan Tahrir” (Ali A. Alraouf); “Key Manifestations of Societal Life in the Arab City Under Israeli Colonialism” (Ibrahim Farid Mahajne); “The Algerian City and the Protest Movement A Sociological Approach” (Tahar Saoud, Abdelhalim Mahor Bacha); “Drop in Oil Prices and Attempts of Reform in Rentier States: The Case of Algeria” (Khaled Menna); “Road Networks in Ottoman Syria (16th – 18th Century)” (Antoine Abdel Nour); “The Civic Role of Arab Universities” (Sari Hanafi); “Sociology of Migration and Urbanization in View of the Structural Paradigm Test” (Khalid Chahbar); “The Brother, the Parish and the Citizen: The Dynamics of Individual Political Status in Tunisia: A Critical Reading of the B” (Ahmed Khouaja).

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  Issue 017

  Vol. 5 No. 017 (2016)

  Issue 17 of Omran for Social Sciences and Humanities (Summer 2016) includes the following studies and articles: “Colonial Knowledge” (Tony Ballantyne); “Managing Cultural Affairs in Morocco during Colonial Times” (Bouchra Zougagh); “Sociology of the Colonial Knowledge Production: Education in Morocco” (Mohamed Faoubar); “Colonial Sociology on Morocco’s Rural Migration” (Abderrahman EL Maliki); “The Legitimacy of Conquest and Annexation: Morocco in French Colonial Writings” (Mohammed Meziane); “The State of Male Syrian Workers in Lebanon” (Sabr Darwish); “Using GIS Technologies and Remote-Sensing Data to Identify Best Locations for Education in Erbil” (Omar Rwandzy); “Spanish Colonial Writing on the Atlantic Coastal Desert” (Mohamed Saba); “Islam and the Market: Dialectic of the Religious and Economic” (Mohamed Taifouri).

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  Issue 016

  Vol. 4 No. 016 (2016)

  Issue 16 of Omran for Social Sciences and Humanities (Spring 2016) includes the following studies and articles: “The Crisis of Modernization and Urban Planning in Algeria: Roots, Reality and Prospects” (Maaouia Saidouni); “The Modern Arab City A Socio-Linguistic Reading of Symptoms of Urbanization Phenomena” (Driss Makboul); “Sociology of Suffering The Daily Life of Youth in Sfax’s Low-Income Districts” (Fouad Ghorbali); “Development of Population Size and Manpower in Gulf States in the First Decade of the 21st Century” (Nedham Abudlkareem Alshafai); “The State’s Development Tasks and Market Control via Industrial Policy” (Taher H. Kanaan); “Exclusion and Informality: The Praetorian Politics of Land Management in Cairo, Egypt” (W. J. Dorman); “The Paradox of Liberation: Secular Revolutions andReligious Counterrevolutions” (Mounir Kchaou); “Modern Social Imaginaries” (Nerouz Satik); “L’imaginaire, l’imaginé et le symbolique”.

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  Issue 015

  Vol. 4 No. 015 (2016)

  Issue 15 of Omran for Social Sciences and Humanities (Winter 2016) includes the following studies and articles: “Tribalism - A Twenty-first Century Anachronism?” (Richard Tapper); “About the Tribe: A Reality with Changeable Dimensions” (Mohamed Tozy); “Algeria: Tribe as a Political Horizon” (Yazid Ben Hounet); “The Tribe in Gulf Contemporary Political Concepts: The Kuwait Example” (Yacoub Yousef Alkandari); “Tribes, Tribalism, and Political Identity in Contemporary Syria” (Dawn Chatty); “Iraqi Tribes in the Land of Jihad” (Hosham Dawod); “Rehabilitating Research on the Arab World: ‘Tribe’ as Habitus”; “The Debate on University, Citizenship and Democracy” (Azmi Bishara); “A Tribute to the Icon of Moroccan Sociology Fatima Mernissi” (Rachid Jarmouni); “Community, Society, Culture: Three Keys to Understanding Today’s Conflicted Identities” (Maurice Godelier); “Fanon: The Postcolonial Imagination by Nigel C. Gibson, translated by Khaled Ayed Abu Hdeib” (Ahmad Jassem al-Hussein); “Arab Research and Knowledge Society: A New Critical Perspective by Sari Hanafi and Rigas Arvanitis” (Hamid al-Hashimi); “The Moral Avenue to Defend Capitalism” (Mustapha Ait Kharouach).

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  Issue 014

  Vol. 4 No. 014 (2015)

  Issue 14 of Omran for Social Sciences and Humanities (Autumn 2015) includes the following studies and articles: “Social Adaptation and Ethnic Identity among Youth of North African Descent in France: When Violence is a Strategic Assertion” (Azzam Amin); “Political Violence in Contemporary Algeria: From Populist Ideology to Islamist Utopia Analytical Elements in Non-Secular His” (Nouri Dris); “On Values and Symbols in Torture Procedures Used on Political Prisoners in Tunisian Prisons: A Sociological Reading of Victi” (Rahma Benslimane); “The Problematic of Identity-based Violence in Light of Social Mobility in the Arab Region: The Case of Morocco” (Abdelhamid Benkhattab); “Torture between International Human Rights Conventions and Palestinian Legislation: A Comparative Study” (Alaa Mohammad Fares Hammad); “Enhancing Accessibility, Reorganizing Transport and Mobility: The Old City of Fez” (Mohamed el-Baghdadi, Hassan El Hajjami); “Social Exclusion: A Concept in Need of Definition” (Robin Peace); “The Youth of the Hecher Roundabout and the Tadamun Neighborhood in Greater Tunis: A Sociological Study”; “Interrogating Social Justice in the Liberal Model” (Morad Diani).

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  Issue 013

  Vol. 4 No. 013 (2015)

  Issue 13 of Omran for Social Sciences and Humanities (Summer 2015) includes the following studies and articles: “The Relationship between University Education and Democracy in the Arab World” (Amer Mahdi Doko); “A Proposed Framework for the Application of a Human Resources Management Strategy to Achieve Research Excellence in Palestin” (Nidal al-Masri, Mohammed al-Agha); “The Path to World-Class Research Universities: A Comprehensive Study of Arab Universities” (Allam Mohammed Mousa Hamdan); “The Trade Union Movement of Tunisian University Teachers” (Mounir Saidani); “The Lebanese Environment Movement and Changes to Cultural Orientations: The Case of North Lebanon” (Emile Maroun); “The Social Order of War in Pre-Colonial Baidhani Society: A Historical Anthropological Reading” (Abdul Hamid Fayez); “How Does the West Look at the Arab Gulf Countries?” (Morad Diani); “The Problem of Economic Disparities in ‘New Capital’” (Fatiha Al Hassani); “Book review:” (Sophie Richter-Devroe).

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  Issue 012

  Vol. 3 No. 012 (2015)

  Issue 12 of Omran for Social Sciences and Humanities (Spring 2015) includes the following studies and articles: “The War Remembered: A Look at the Voluntary and Humanitarian Work of Young People with the Lebanese Red Cross in the Outskir” (Annie Tohme-Tabet); “The Premises of the “Time Gap” in the Intellectual History of Civil Society” (El-Chami El Achhab Youness); “The Demographic Gift and Egypt’s Waste of Human Capital: An Analysis of the Development Challenges” (Mohammed Abdul Rahman Saleh Mahmoud); “A Hybrid Social Security System in the West Bank, 1994-2014” (Ibrahim Farid Mahajne); “The University Intellectual: Why Should We Study the Past?” (Shereen Abou El-Naga); “The Obstinate and Prospective Arab Habitus” (Frederic Maatouk); “Community, Society, Culture: Three Keys to Understanding Today’s Conflicted Identities by Maurice Godelier” (Maurice Godelier); “A Reading of the Arab Revolutions: Tyranny and the Implications of Change” (Walid Noueihed); “Foreign Migration from North Africa: The Example of Holland” (Abdelkader Latrache).

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  Issue 011

  Vol. 3 No. 011 (2015)

  Issue 11 of Omran for Social Sciences and Humanities (Winter 2015) includes the following studies and articles: “The Question of Sectarianism and the Manufacturing of Minorities in the Greater Arab Levant” (Azmi Bishara); “Sectarianism Has a History: On the Formation of Sects and Political Units” (Ahmad Beydoun); “The Neo-Patrimonialist State in the Arab Levant: On the Logic of Group Solidarity and the Reproduction of Sectarianism” (Ashraf Othman); “Shiite identity in a Political Process: The Field of Power Evolution and the Reproduction of Shiite Identity in Saudi Arabia” (Ahmed Saad Ghazi Alowfi); “Ethnic, Linguistic, and Religious Pluralism in Oman: The Link with Political Stability” (Ahmed Al Ismaili); “Confessionalism in the Modern Levant: the Ottoman and Safavid Cases” (Mahjoob Zweiri); “Opportunities for Political Pluralism in the Arab Spring Countries” (Emile Badarin); “The Effects of Sociology in Morocco and the Issue of Gender: Major Transformations” (Faouzi Boukhriss); ““ Tribal and Territorial Phenomena in Contemporary Arab Society” by Mohammed Najib Boutaleb” (Kheder Zakaria).

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  Issue 010

  Vol. 3 No. 010 (2014)

  Issue 10 of Omran for Social Sciences and Humanities (Autumn 2014) includes the following studies and articles: “Social Cohesion in Lebanon’s Secondary School Curriculum: Effects on Students’ Attitudes” (Maha Shuayb); “Moroccan Islamists on the Civilian State: Case of the Justice and Charity (Al Adl wal Ihsan) Movement and the Justice and De” (Hicham Khabbach); “A Reading on Syria: Deconstructing Sectarian Discourse” (Jérôme Maucourant, Akram Kachee); “The Oral Discourse of Religious Minorities and Coexistence in the Ottoman Tunisia” (Mohamed Meriemi); “Arab Education Systems: Current Crisis and Future Challenges” (Rachid Jarmouni); “Rural Development and Agriculture Policies in Egypt: Historical Roots and Effects on Farmers” (Saker El Nour); “From the Post-Colonial State to the Just, Democratic, Independent Social Welfare State? The Socio-Historical Negotiation of” (Mounir Saidani); “Colonial States as Intelligence States: Security Policing and the Limits of Colonial Rule in France’s Muslim Territories, 19” (Martin Thomas); “Ordinary People and Politics” (Sari Hanafi).

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  Issue 009

  Vol. 3 No. 009 (2014)

  Issue 9 of Omran for Social Sciences and Humanities (Summer 2014) includes the following studies and articles: “Social Justice and Public Expenditure in Arab Spring States” (Ali Abdulqadir Ali); “Alternative Development Policies in Arab-Revolution States” (Darim Albassam); “Rehabilitating Industrial Policy in the Arab world: Past lessons, Present challenges, and Future Prospects” (Sami Atallah); “Small and Medium-Sized Industry in the GCC states” (Mohammed Naji al-Tuni); “Writing Op-eds in Lebanese Newspapers: The Relative Demise of Public Life of Arab Academics” (Sari Hanafi, Rigas Arvanitis); “The Muslim Brotherhood: Generation Gap in the Post-January 25 Period” (Doha Samir); “Spontaneity and Agency in Human Action” (Chehab Yahyaoui); “An Examination of the Arab Revolutions and the Threat of Falling Back to Square One” (Walid Noueihed); “Abd-el-Krim El-Jatabi : La Lucha Por la Independencia by María Rosa de Madariaga” (Elhaj Sassioui).

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  Issue 008

  Vol. 2 No. 008 (2014)

  Issue 8 of Omran for Social Sciences and Humanities (Spring 2014) includes the following studies and articles: “Zionism and Colonialism” (Elia Zureik); “Demography and Conflicts in the context of Israel/Palestine. Forecasts for the future” (Youssef Kerbage); “Reinserting Political Economy into Palestinian Policy Analysis and Movement” (Toufic Haddad); “Activism and Academia: The Case of Palestine” (Ilan Pappé); “Walking Through Walls: The Invisible War” (Sahera Bleibleh); “Why Do We Care So Much About What Others Think? An Introduction to Sociological Epistemology” (Hicham Khabbach); “The Formation of the Individual and the Constituents of Individuality in Tunisian Society” (Adel Belhaj Rhouma); “A Reading of the Arab Revolutions: Arab Societies between Acceptance of Revolution and the Potential of Counterrevolution” (Walid Noueihed); “Le proche et le lointain. Un siècle d’anthropologie au Maroc by Hassan Rachik” (Yahia Ben al-Walid).

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  Issue 007

  Vol. 2 No. 007 (2014)

  Issue 7 of Omran for Social Sciences and Humanities (Winter 2014) includes the following studies and articles: “The Role of Peace and Commerce Treaties in the Western Mediterranean Basin during the Middle Ages” (Mohamed Taher Mansouri); “Israeli Biopolitics: Closure, Territorialization, and Governmentality in the Occupied Palestinian Territories” (Mark B. Salter); “Israel’s Digital Occupation of Gaza” (Helga Tawil-Souri); “Statistics and Social Research in the Occupied Territories: The Colonial Effect and the Fragmentation of Palestinian Society” (Abbad Yahya); “The Political and the Sociological in the Arab Sphere: Shifts in Relationships” (Maher Tremiche); “The Question of Citizenship in Sudanese Islamic Thought: Traditional, Renewalist, and Post-Salafist Approaches” (Shamsuddin al-Amin Daw al-Bayt); “Popes, Presidents, and Protests: The January 25 Revolution and the Coptic Orthodox Church” (Salma Mousa).

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  Issue 006

  Vol. 2 No. 006 (2013)

  Issue 6 of Omran for Social Sciences and Humanities (Autumn 2013) includes the following studies and articles: “From Spying to Conflict and Violence: Surveillance Mechanisms in the Modern Egyptian State” (Ahmed Zayed); “Surveillance and the Formation of the Public Sphere in the Ottoman Empire” (Cengiz Kirli); “Criminals or Martyrs? British Colonial Legacy in Palestine and the Criminalization of Resistance” (Rana Barakat); “Constructing Palestine through Surveillance Practices” (Elia Zureik); “The Arab Spring and Surveillance Collapse in the face of Social Media Networks” (Hicham Khabbach); “Revolution against the Independent State and the Meaning of Democratic Transition in Contemporary Tunisian Ideological Thoug” (Souheil Lahbaib); “Civil-Military Relations in Egypt: Toward Civilian Control?” (Ahmed Abed Rabbo); “The Makhzen in 19th Century Morocco: Beholder and Beheld” (Yahya Bou Lahya); “The Quest for Prosperity: How Developing Economies Can Take Off by Justin Yifu Lin” (Ali Abdulqadir Ali).