Vol. 3 No. 012 (2015): Issue 012

غلاف العدد 12 من دورية عمران

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).

Published: 2015-04-01

Studies

  • The War Remembered: A Look at the Voluntary and Humanitarian Work of Young People with the Lebanese Red Cross in the Outskir

    Author: Annie Tohme-Tabet (Author)
    7-30

    Commitment or simply “doing something” were concerns that exercised a sizeable segment of Lebanese youth in 1975. The portents of the civil war had begun to appear, and young people were caught...

  • The Premises of the “Time Gap” in the Intellectual History of Civil Society

    Author: El-Chami El Achhab Youness (Author)
    31-48

    The concept of “Civil society” disappeared for a time from circulation for reasons that are obscure, only to later re-emerge. Whatever the difficulty in grasping both the reasons underlying the...

  • The Demographic Gift and Egypt’s Waste of Human Capital: An Analysis of the Development Challenges

    Author: Mohammed Abdul Rahman Saleh Mahmoud (Author)
    49-75

    The study examines the relationship between Egypt’s “demographic gift” and its human capital. Egypt’s low living standards, states the author, are the outcome of an absence of investment in its...

  • A Hybrid Social Security System in the West Bank, 1994-2014

    Author: Ibrahim Farid Mahajne (Author)
    77-100

    This study explores social security in the West Bank since the establishment of the Palestinian Authority (PA) in 1994 until it was granted the status of a non-member state by the United Nations...

  • The University Intellectual: Why Should We Study the Past?

    Author: Shereen Abou El-Naga (Author)
    101-118

    This study offers a reading into the predicament of the intellectual at university, at a time when avenues for political expression are blocked. If the role of the intellectual is a role “in...

Discussions

  • The Obstinate and Prospective Arab Habitus

    Author: Frederic Maatouk (Author)
    139-156

    There are many approaches to answering the thorny questions still being raised in the contemporary Arab world after more than 150 years: Why is the West advancing and not the Arab world? Why do...

Translation

  • Community, Society, Culture: Three Keys to Understanding Today’s Conflicted Identities by Maurice Godelier Cited once

    Author: Maurice Godelier (Author)
    121-136

    Community, Society, Culture: Three Keys to Understanding Today’s Conflicted Identities by Maurice Godelier translated by Zahra Jaber and Saoud Al Mawla

Book Reviews

  • A Reading of the Arab Revolutions: Tyranny and the Implications of Change

    Author: Walid Noueihed (Author)
    159-172

    This paper reviews a group of books published by the ACRPS that deal with the Syrian revolution: Azmi Bishara’s “Syria’s Via Dolorosa towards Freedom: An Attempt at Current History”;...

  • Foreign Migration from North Africa: The Example of Holland

    Author: Abdelkader Latrache (Author)
    173-180

    Book title: Labor Migration from the Arab Maghreb to Europe: The Example of Holland Author: Hashim Nima Fayyad Place of publication: Doha/Beirut Publisher: ACRPS Date of publication: 2012 Number...

  • المواطنة والعنف والتصورات النمطية في «مواطِنة لا أنثى»

    Author: هدى حوا (Author)
    181-189

    الكتاب: مواطنة لا أنثى الكاتب: عزة شرارة بيضون مكان النشر: بيروت الناشر: دار الساقي تاريخ النشر: 2015 عدد الصفحات: 255