Vol. 4 No. 016 (2016): Issue 016

غلاف العدد 16 من دورية عمران

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”.

Published: 2016-04-01

Studies

  • The State’s Development Tasks and Market Control via Industrial Policy

    Author: Taher H. Kanaan (Author)
    131-154

    Kanaan reviews the vision that economic theory offers for the role of the state, whereby sustainable development defines the goals of economic policy. His paper shows how both the views of...

Issue Focus

  • The Crisis of Modernization and Urban Planning in Algeria: Roots, Reality and Prospects Cited once

    Author: Maaouia Saidouni (Author)
    7-46

    This study takes up the history of modernization and urban planning in Algeria. Through description and analysis, it assesses the clash between the country’s historic, architectural, and built...

  • The Modern Arab City A Socio-Linguistic Reading of Symptoms of Urbanization Phenomena

    Author: Driss Makboul (Author)
    47-76

    Maqboul examines the interactive correlation between man, the built environment, and language. His paper begins with the hypothesis that symptoms of ‘diseased urbanization’, such as the absence...

  • Sociology of Suffering The Daily Life of Youth in Sfax’s Low-Income Districts Cited once

    Author: Fouad Ghorbali (Author)
    77-102

    Based on field research undertaken in the al-‘Aqaribah neighborhood of Sfax, this study attempts to provide a sociological understanding of the day-to-day life of Tunisian youth in «popular» or...

  • Development of Population Size and Manpower in Gulf States in the First Decade of the 21st Century

    Author: Nedham Abudlkareem Alshafai (Author)
    103-128

    The economy and demography of the Arab states in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) are bound together by petroleum. Each is still registering great demographic growth, both in comparison with...

Translation

  • Exclusion and Informality: The Praetorian Politics of Land Management in Cairo, Egypt Cited twice

    Author: W. J. Dorman (Author)
    157-202

    Since the late 1970s, Western aid agencies, including the US Agency for International Development (AID) and the World Bank, sought to assist the Egyptian government in planning its capital,...

Book Reviews

  • The Paradox of Liberation: Secular Revolutions andReligious Counterrevolutions

    Author: Mounir Kchaou (Author)
    205-222

    In his book, Michael Walzer addresses a fundamental question: whyhave secular, modernizing, national liberation revolutions in Algeria, Israel,and India given rise to religious...

Reports

  • تقرير عن الندوة الدولية حول

    Author: محمد الادريسي (Author)
    233-239

    على مدى يومين كاملين (25 -26 تشرين الثاني/ نوفمبر 2015)، عقدت الكلية المتعددة الـتـخـصـصـات فـي الـنـاظـور، بشراكة مع المجلس العلمي المحلي لمدينة الناظور وجـامـعـة محمد الأول في وجدة والرابطة...

  • تقرير حول المؤتمر السنوي الخامس للعلوم الإنسانية والاجتماعية:

    Author: كمال طيرشي (Author)
    241-246

    عقد المركز العربي للأبحاث ودراسة السياسات في الدوحة المؤتمر السنوي الخامس للعلوم الإنسانية والاجتماعية (2015 - 2016) خلال الـفـتـرة 12 - 14 آذار/ مـارس 2016. وجرى توحيد موضوعَي المؤتمر مع...

Book Presentations

  • Modern Social Imaginaries Cited once

    Author: Nerouz Satik (Author)
    223-225

    Author: Charles Taylor Translator: al-Hareth al-Nabhan Place of publication: Doha/Beirut Publisher: ACRPS Date of publication: 2015 Number of pages: 254

  • L’imaginaire, l’imaginé et le symbolique

    Author: مولدي الأحمر (Author)
    227-230

    Book Title: L’imaginaire, l’imaginé et le Symbolique Author: Maurice Godelier Publisher: CNRS Editions Date of publication: 2015 Number of pages: 286