Vol. 7 No. 025 (2018): Issue 025

غلاف العدد 25 من دورية عمران

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).

Published: 2018-07-01

Special Dossier

  • Feminism in Iraq: Between NGOization, Ethnosectarian Violence and the Struggle for a Civil State

    Author: Zahra Ali (Author)
    7-27

    This article explores Iraqi women’s political activism since 2003 relying on an in–depth ethnography of women’s political organizations conducted mainly in Baghdad, as well as in the cities of...

  • Between Religion, Gender, and Colonialism: Women Leaders and Activists in the Islamic Movement within the Green Line

    Author: Areen Hawari (Author)
    29-56

    This paper analyzes the discourse and social and political activism of women leaders and activists in the Islamic Movement inside the Green Line, the pre–1949 boundaries of Israel. The author...

  • The Image of Religious Women in the Politico– Religious Discourse in Morocco

    Author: Mourad Jaddi (Author)
    79-100

    This study addresses the depiction of religious women in the discourse of Moroccan religious and politico–religious actors to reveal the relationship between the forms of religious discourse and...

  • Illegal Migration of Algerian Women as an Act of Resistance: A Sociological Study of the Phenomenon of the Harragat

    Author: Sabiha Kime (Author)
    101-124

    In recent years Algerian women have witnessed major socio–cultural transformations, which have enabled them to undertake new roles and take part in their country’s development. This has not,...

Discussions

  • Sociology of Education and the Question of Gender: From Social Inequalities to Gender Disparities

    Author: Faouzi Boukhriss (Author)
    145-157

    This article deals with the circumstances that have driven the interest of French sociologists in questions of education and gender. It aims to trace the transformation this sub–discipline of...

Translation

  • Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay on Phenomenology and Feminist Theory

    Author: Judith Butler (Author)
    127-141

    This essay by Judith Butler has become a feminist classic. It combines a fertile mix of speech–act theory, which views language as performative, creating events in the world; and phenomenology...

Book Reviews

  • Work. The Last 1,000 Years

    Author: Sabah Alnasseri (Author)
    161-170

    Title: Work. The Last 1,000 Years. Author: Andrea Komlosy. Publisher: Verso, London. Year of Publication: 2018. No. of pages: 268.

  • The Struggle for the State of Jordan: The Social Origins of Alliances in the Middle East

    Author: Hatem Alsarairah (Author)
    171-180

    Author: Jamie Allinson. Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., New York/London. Year of publication: 2016. No. of pages: 185.

  • A Social Revolution: Politics and the Welfare State in Iran

    Author: Fatima Alsmadi (Author)
    181-188

    Author: Kevan Harris. Publisher: University of California. Year of publication: 2017. No. of pages: 381.

  • Jihad in the West: The Rise of Militant Salafism

    Author: Ahmad Iz Addin As’ad (Author)
    189-194

    Author: Frazer Egerton. Translator: Fadi Melhem. Publisher: ACRPS – Beirut/Doha. Year of publication: 2017.

Reports

  • International Conference on Social Movements and Protest in Transitional Contexts

    Author: Mehrez Drissi (Author)
    197-207

    This report comprises a series of contributions presented at the conference «Social Movements and Protest in Transitional Contexts» convened by the ACRPS’s Tunis office between March 8–10, 2018....