Vol. 12 No. 045 (2023): Issue 045

غلاف العدد 45 من دورية عمران

Issue 45 of Omran for Social Sciences and Humanities (Summer 2023) includes the following studies and articles: “Typology of Digital Religious Identity: A Sociological Study of Youth's Religious Expressions on Facebook” (Nadia Elalia); “The Insult in Tunisian Political Culture” (Abdallah Janouf); ““Haratin in Mauritania”: To What Extent Does Social Origin Determine Opportunities for Social Mobility and Status Change?” (Mohamed Yahya Hasni); “Development and Settler Colonialism: Perpetuating Neo-colonial Domination and Apartheid” (Hasan Ayoub, Eleyan Sawafta); “Trans-Territorial Sumud: Refugee Responses to Multiple Systems of Oppression in Burj Barajneh Camp” (Rami Rmeileh); “Distinguished Lecture: Anti Anti-Relativism” (Clifford Geertz); “A Brief History of Equality” (Otmane Atmania); “On the Meaning of Land: Restoring the Palestinian Self” (Ahmed Idrees).

Published: 2023-07-01

Studies

  • Typology of Digital Religious Identity: A Sociological Study of Youth's Religious Expressions on Facebook

    Author: Nadia Elalia (Author)
    36-7

    This study analyses the religious profile of Facebook users as an expression of digital religious identity. The principal research question is: How do Facebook users construct their digital...

  • The Insult in Tunisian Political Culture

    Author: Abdallah Janouf (Author)
    37-61

    The main Arabic words used to describe political insults are "smear" ( waṣm ), "slander/insult" ( shatῑma ) and "trading barbs" ( tarāshuq )... However, these words appear in different contexts...

  • “Haratin in Mauritania”: To What Extent Does Social Origin Determine Opportunities for Social Mobility and Status Change?

    Author: Mohamed Yahya Hasni (Author)
    63-103

    This paper examines the marginalized Haratin people of Mauritania, utilizing a sociological approach grounded in the paradigms of social mobility. For decades, the Haratin social group has been...

  • Development and Settler Colonialism: Perpetuating Neo-colonial Domination and Apartheid Cited once

    Author: Hasan Ayoub, Eleyan Sawafta (Author)
    105-136

    This paper examines the relationship between the conceptual framing of the state of Israel in the occupied Palestinian territories in 1967 and its development practices. It argues that the...

  • Trans-Territorial Sumud: Refugee Responses to Multiple Systems of Oppression in Burj Barajneh Camp

    Author: Rami Rmeileh (Author)
    137-167

    This paper introduces a conceptual framework to examine the importance of " sumud " as a fundamental aspect of Palestinian life that challenges Euro– American theories of resilience and trauma....

Translation

  • Distinguished Lecture: Anti Anti-Relativism

    Author: Clifford Geertz (Author)
    171-197

    In this article, Clifford Geertz offers a rigorous critique of anti– relativism. He does not seek to defend relativism so much as criticize anti– relativism as a discourse, deriding the...

Book Reviews

  • A Brief History of Equality

    Author: Otmane Atmania (Author)
    201-209

    Book Title: Une brève histoire de l’égalité . Author: Thomas Piketty. Publisher: Paris: Seuil. Date of Publication: 2021. Pages: 368.

  • On the Meaning of Land: Restoring the Palestinian Self

    Author: Ahmed Idrees (Author)
    211-220

    Book title: On the Meaning of Land: Restoring the Palestinian Self . Author: Bilal Awad Salameh. Publisher: Doha/ Beirut: Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies. Date of Publication: 2021....