Vol. 12 No. 024 (2026): Issue 024

غلاف العدد 24 من دورية أسطور

Issue 24 of Ostour for Historical Studies (2026) includes the following studies and articles: ““Styles” of Tunisian Historical Writing and Epistemic and Methodological Turns in the Modern and Contemporary Periods” (Abdelhamid Hénia); “Writing the General History of Tunisia over a Century: Changes and Challenges (1918-2019)” (Mohamed Lazhar Gharbi); “Repercussions of the Ottoman – Russian War (1768–1774) on the Political Situations in Mount Lebanon and the Coast during the Reign of Emir Yusuf Shihab” (Bassem Marwan Fleifel); “Kenitra from the Village to the Douar: The Expansion of the Urban Environment and the Emergence of the Moroccan Proletariat (1912 - 1975)” (Saïd El Bouzidi); “Urban Development of Jerusalem under Jordanian Rule: Narrating the Jerusalem International Airport, 1948-1967” (Mansour Nasasra); “Agricultural Modernization in Independent Morocco: Operation Plow (1957-1962)” (Brahim Aitizzy); “Microstoria” (Jacques Revel); “Moreno Cirillo's Journey to Southern Morocco: A Study of Mentalities, Representations, and Motivations” (Lacen Idbrahim, Bouzid Laghla); “Tunisia: From the Makhzen to the Modern State – Revisiting Mohamed-Salah Mzali's Intellectual Journey” (Khalid Jeddi); “A Workshop on Disseminating Historical Knowledge: A Reading of Fragments d'histoire marocaine: Société et figures du pouvoir by Abdelahad Sebti” (Hamid Titaou); “Gaza Faces History” (Abdelmajid Skhairi).

Published: 2026-07-01
Issue totals:328 views445 downloads

Studies

  • “Styles” of Tunisian Historical Writing and Epistemic and Methodological Turns in the Modern and Contemporary Periods 29 views44 downloads

    Author: Abdelhamid Hénia

    How do we assess historical writing in Tunisia when it spans more than four centuries? What framework should we adopt to categorize this experience, and using which analytical tools? One way of...

  • Writing the General History of Tunisia over a Century: Changes and Challenges (1918-2019) 29 views0 downloads

    Author: Mohamed Lazhar Gharbi

    This article examines books written on the history of Tunisia over the century that passed from 1918 to 2019. These chronicles all seek to summarize the country's history according to specific...

  • Repercussions of the Ottoman – Russian War (1768–1774) on the Political Situations in Mount Lebanon and the Coast during the Reign of Emir Yusuf Shihab 40 views45 downloads

    Author: Bassem Marwan Fleifel

    The early years of the second half of the 18 th century saw the Russian Empire's resumption of its earlier expansions southward towards the Black Sea, where the Ottoman Empire obtained...

  • Kenitra from the Village to the Douar: The Expansion of the Urban Environment and the Emergence of the Moroccan Proletariat (1912 - 1975) 31 views43 downloads

    Author: Saïd El Bouzidi

    The contemporary history of Kenitra represents a model of Moroccan cities that underwent social transformations as a result of their reliance on market-oriented economic production. The city...

  • Urban Development of Jerusalem under Jordanian Rule: Narrating the Jerusalem International Airport, 1948-1967 29 views46 downloads

    Author: Mansour Nasasra

    This study argues that the establishment and expansion of Jerusalem Airport played a decisive role in the development of Jerusalem as a vibrant Arab metropolis, embedded within the social,...

  • Agricultural Modernization in Independent Morocco: Operation Plow (1957-1962) 28 views41 downloads

    Author: Brahim Aitizzy

    This study deals with an aspect of the modernization attempts adopted by Morocco after gaining independence to improve the conditions of Moroccans after a period that was fraught with oppression...

Documents and Texts

  • Moreno Cirillo's Journey to Southern Morocco: A Study of Mentalities, Representations, and Motivations 26 views46 downloads

    Authors: Lacen Idbrahim, Bouzid Laghla

    Moreno Cirillo's account of his travel on the Moroccan Spanish mission to the Atlantic Sahara has remained an obscure text, largely neglected by scholars in terms of translation and study. This...

Translations

  • Microstoria 28 views44 downloads

    Author: Jacques Revel

    Microhistory is linked to the historiography developed by the Italian historical school in the 1970s. Initially, the pioneers of this movement, including Carlo Poni, Edoardo Grendi, Giovanni...

Book Reviews

  • Tunisia: From the Makhzen to the Modern State – Revisiting Mohamed-Salah Mzali's Intellectual Journey 29 views39 downloads

    Author: Khalid Jeddi

    Editor: Ilyes Jouini Book Title: Tunisia from the Makhzen to the Nation-State in Light of the Trajectory of Mohamed Salah Mzali Original Title: La Tunisie du makhzen à l'État national: À la...

  • A Workshop on Disseminating Historical Knowledge: A Reading of Fragments d'histoire marocaine: Société et figures du pouvoir by Abdelahad Sebti 29 views46 downloads

    Author: Hamid Titaou

    Author: Abdelahad Sebti Title: Fragments of Moroccan History: Society and Figures of Power. Original Title: Fragments d'histoire marocaine: Société et figures du pouvoir. Publisher: Casablanca:...

  • Gaza Faces History 30 views51 downloads

    Author: Abdelmajid Skhairi

    The book reflects on Israel’s war on Gaza after the October 7, 2023 Al-Aqsa Flood operation. It offers a critical perspective on the political debates it sparked and examines how history is...