Vol. 2 No. 008 (2014): Issue 008

غلاف العدد 8 من دورية عمران

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).

Published: 2014-04-01

Studies

  • Why Do We Care So Much About What Others Think? An Introduction to Sociological Epistemology

    Author: Hicham Khabbach (Author)
    107-124

    In this study, Shabbat draws upon the expertise of sociological epistemology in an attempt to answer a central question, namely why do we care so much about what others think of us? The study...

  • The Formation of the Individual and the Constituents of Individuality in Tunisian Society

    Author: Adel Belhaj Rhouma (Author)
    125-140

    What is one investigating when attempting to determine the nature of the individual and individuality in non-western societies such as, for example, Tunisian society? This is the question posed...

Issue Focus

  • Zionism and Colonialism

    Author: Elia Zureik (Author)
    7-34

    Zureik explores the nature of Zionism and its colonial practices, with the objective of demystifying the Zionist myth and narrative, claiming that Zionism, and its embodiment through colonial...

  • Demography and Conflicts in the context of Israel/Palestine. Forecasts for the future

    Author: Youssef Kerbage (Author)
    35-50

    The subject of demographic conflict in Palestine has recently received additional momentum after the January 2013 Knesset elections in Israel, when far right and settler’s parties, with annexing...

  • Reinserting Political Economy into Palestinian Policy Analysis and Movement

    Author: Toufic Haddad (Author)
    51-72

    Political economy analysis harbors powerful tools for conceptualizing the current state of the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), both in regards to its developmental condition, and vis-à-vis...

  • Activism and Academia: The Case of Palestine

    Author: Ilan Pappé (Author)
    73-86

    This paper addresses the rise and fall of the intellectual and academic critique of Zionism within Jewish society in Israel. Such critique emerged in the late 1980s as a result of social,...

  • Walking Through Walls: The Invisible War

    Author: Sahera Bleibleh (Author)
    87-104

    This paper presents the implications of modern urban warfare through ethnographic research of the Palestinian lived experience of the 2002 Israeli invasion Edjteyah. It is a scholarly attempt to...

Book Reviews

  • A Reading of the Arab Revolutions: Arab Societies between Acceptance of Revolution and the Potential of Counterrevolution

    Author: Walid Noueihed (Author)
    143-158

    This paper is the first part of the author’s reading of books published by the ACRPS around the Arab revolutions. It deals with these books in terms of their acceptance of revolution in Arab...

  • Le proche et le lointain. Un siècle d’anthropologie au Maroc by Hassan Rachik

    Author: Yahia Ben al-Walid (Author)
    159-166

    Book Title: Le Proche et le lointain: un siècle d’anthropologie au Maroc Author: Hassan Rachik Place of publication: Aix-en-Provence Publisher: Éditions Parenthèses/Maison Méditerranéenne des...

Reports

  • في سياسات التنمية وأطوار التاريخ الانتقالي المؤتمر السنوي الثالث للعلوم الاجتماعية والإنسانية

    Author: هيئة التحرير (Author)
    181-186

    تمثل هذه الورقة ملخصًا لفعاليات المؤتمر السنوي الثالث للعلوم الاجتماعية والإنسانية، والذي عقده المركز العربي للأبحاث ودراسة السياسات في تونس في 20-22 آذار/مارس 2014. وتركزت أعمال المؤتمر على...

Book Presentations

  • تقديم لمجموعة من الكتب

    Author: نيروز ساتيك (Author)
    167-174

    تقدم هذه الورقة تقديمًا مختصرًا لثلاثة كتب هي: "المهمَّشون في صعيد مصر: آليات السيطرة والخضوع" للمؤلفة آمال طنطاوي، "البركان قصة انطلاق المقاومة العراقية" للمؤلف وليد الزبيدي، "إشكالية الدولة...

  • تقديم كتاب

    Author: زياد منى (Author)
    175-177

    الكتاب: سجلات السلب، أملاك اللاجئين الفلسطينيين والصراع العربي - الإسرائيلي؛ دراسة في الأرشيفات الرسمية والمراجع الدولية الكاتب: مايكل فيشباخ ترجمة: سميح حمود الناشر: مؤسسة الدراسات الفلسطينية...