The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies have published the 43rd issue (Winter 2023) of the quarterly peer-reviewed journal Omran, dedicated to the social sciences. This edition contains the following studies: “Statistical Analysis in Sociology: The New Positivist Approach” by Mohamed Faoubar & Khalid Zaghari; “The Anthropology of Global Warming: The Climate, Human Rights, and Global Human Coexistence” by Amr Osman; “22 February 2019 Hirak and Arab Spring Uprisings: The Limits of the Algerian Exception Narrative?” by Mohammed Hemchi & Abdennour Benantar; “The Lived Experiences of the Palestinian Women from the Occupied Palestinian Territory who are married and reside within the ‘Green Line’” by Suhad Daher-Nashif & Areen Hawari.
Also provided is a translation of John W Meyer & Brian Rowan’s “Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony” by Osama Mohammed. Three book reviews are also featured in Omran 43: Jibril Ali's review of The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of the Middle East by Armando Salvatore, Sari Hanafi & Kieko Obuse (eds.); Mahmoud Dhaouadi's review of Decolonizing Sociology: An Introduction by Ali Meghji; and Mohamed A. Razak Hussein's review of On the Islamic Intellectual and Arab Maladies: Reflections on Contemporary Tribulations by Abdelwahab El-Affendi.
