Vol. 2 No. 005 (2013): Issue 005

غلاف العدد 5 من دورية تبيّن

Issue 5 of Tabayyun (2013) includes the following studies and articles: “The Question of Justice in the Contemporary Arab Context” (Azmi Bishara); “Toward an Arab Theory of Justice” (Fahmy Gedaan); “The Dialectic of Justice and Freedom in Light of the Arab Revolutions: Democracy as the Justice of the 21st Century” (Mohamed al-Haddad); “Dialectic Justice First: From Awareness of Change to Changing Awareness” (Said Bensaid el-Alaoui); “Justice in a State of Exception: A Commentary on Justice and its Failures” (Abdelaziz Labib); “Justice as Recognition” (Hossam al-Din Darwish); “Deconstructing the Construction: Transformations of the Palestinian Map in Palestinian Imagery” (Abdulrahim al-Shaikh); “Cinema as a Philosophical Subject” (Mohamed Noureddine Afaya); “Uneasy Identity in Edward Said’s Out of Place: A Memoir” (Mohamed Eddahi); “A Summary of Justice History” (Rachid Yalouh); “Ethnic Nationalism and the Fall of Empire” (Hani Awwad); “An Introduction to Culture Sociology” (Walid Noueihed); “Conference “Translation in the Arab World and Prospects for Developing the Arabic Language”” (Mirvat Abou Khalil); “The Totalitarian State” (Franz Leopold Neumann).

Published: 2013-02-01

Studies

  • The Question of Justice in the Contemporary Arab Context

    Author: Azmi Bishara
    07-26

    Bishara explores the deep-rooted, transcultural history of justice and fairness, which has fluctuated and evolved into the contemporary concept of justice and which is linked to citizenship...

  • Toward an Arab Theory of Justice

    Author: Fahmy Gedaan
    27-50

    What is justice in an Arab context? Or what should an Arab theory of justice consist of? In an attempt to answer these questions, this paper investigates the main theories of justice in...

  • The Dialectic of Justice and Freedom in Light of the Arab Revolutions: Democracy as the Justice of the 21st Century

    Author: Mohamed al-Haddad
    51-64

    This paper presents a reading of the Arab Spring’s events and an attempt to forecast its future by examining the relationship between the ongoing social movements and various contemporary ideas...

  • Dialectic Justice First: From Awareness of Change to Changing Awareness

    Author: Said Bensaid el-Alaoui
    65-76

    This paper argues that justice is the primary demand unifying the ongoing Arab uprisings, and that justice represents the locus of all the other demands of the popular uprisings. The author also...

  • Justice in a State of Exception: A Commentary on Justice and its Failures

    Author: Abdelaziz Labib
    77-96

    In order to examine the inconsistencies of justice witnessed in our globalized world, this study begins with two famous “cases of exception” to international justice—Guantanamo Bay’s detention...

  • Justice as Recognition

    Author: Hossam al-Din Darwish
    97-120

    Darwish argues that the idea of “justice as recognition” may provide the basis for a comprehensive theory of justice. This requires an examination of the conceptual and linguistic connotations...

  • Deconstructing the Construction: Transformations of the Palestinian Map in Palestinian Imagery

    Author: Abdulrahim al-Shaikh
    123-154

    This study examines the transformations of the Palestinian map in cultural and political imagery since the beginnings of the Palestinian national project’s collapse, in 1974, until the...

  • Cinema as a Philosophical Subject

    Author: Mohamed Noureddine Afaya
    155-172

    The relationship between philosophy and cinema may be examined from three angles: the philosophical output of cinema, in that cinema is a field capable of producing ideas and concepts and having...

  • Uneasy Identity in Edward Said’s Out of Place: A Memoir

    Author: Mohamed Eddahi
    173-194

    Al-Dahi examines Edward Said’s autobiography from various perspectives. It first focuses on the memoir’s intellectual dimension, which traces Said’s educational experience and his intellectual...

Discussions

  • A Summary of Justice History

    Author: Rachid Yalouh
    215-222

    The author of A Brief History of Justice presents an aspect of the idea of justice, from a "western" perspective, leading his effort to fall short. This article postulates that this shortcoming...

  • Ethnic Nationalism and the Fall of Empire

    Author: Hani Awwad
    223-232

    Populism was the main basis for the formation of principle of national self-determination, and at that time appeals to ethnicity did not have an inflammatory effect. We can see that the image of...

  • An Introduction to Culture Sociology

    Author: Walid Noueihed
    233-238

    The book "An Introduction to the Sociology of Culture" raises a series of questions around the meaning of culture, how it has been formed historically and socially, and how philosophers and...

Reports

  • Conference “Translation in the Arab World and Prospects for Developing the Arabic Language”

    Author: Mirvat Abou Khalil
    241-249

    Conference “Translation in the Arab World and Prospects for Developing the Arabic Language”, held by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, Beirut, March 17-18, 2017.

From the Library

  • The Totalitarian State

    Author: Franz Leopold Neumann
    197-212

    The idea of the totalitarian state grew out of the demand that all power be concentrated in the hands of the president. Immediately after Hitler's accession to power, political theorists began...