The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies have published the 41st issue (Summer 2022) of the quarterly peer-reviewed journal Omran, dedicated to the social sciences. This edition contains the following studies: “Migration and the Impact of Migrant Remittances on the Urban Space: What Development Dynamic?” by Chiheb Yahyaoui; “Environmental Awareness and the Formation of New Social Movements in a Tunisian City: The Struggle of Civil Society against Environmental Pollution in Sfax” by Asmahan Ben Fraj; “Urban Population Growth in Iraq and its Social and Economic Impact” by Hashim Nimah Fayad; “The Syrian Euphrates Dialect in the Deir ez-Zor Governorate: A Phonetic and Semantic Study” by Masoud Ahmed Alkhalf.
The issue also includes a discussion titled “The Authoritarian State in the Arab Societies between Khaldoun Al-Naqib and Abdullah Hammoudi: Contribution from the Mashriq and the Maghreb in the Critical Social Theory” by Azzeddine Elfaraa. Two book reviews are also featured in Omran 41: Bouchra Jeouni's review of Class Childhoods: Inequality among Children by Bernard Lahire; and Mohammed Bekkaye's review of Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity by Judith Butler.
