​The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies have published the 56th issue (Spring 2026) of the quarterly peer-reviewed journal Omran, dedicated to the social sciences. This issue contains the following studies: “Post-Independence Algerian Protest Movements: Rupture and Continuity” by Nacer Djabi; “The University as a Field of Struggle: Student Protests in Tunisia and Egypt (1968-1973)” by Adnan ElAmine; “Awareness of Otherness between Religion and Utility: Moroccans’ Representations of Sub-Saharan African Migrants” by Aziz Mechouat and Mehdi Jaafar; “When the Sociologist Wears the Historian’s Cloak: Uses of History in Khaldoun Al-Naqeeb’s Analysis of Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Societies” by Abdulrahman Alebrahim; and “War by Another Means: The Impasse of Gaza’s Reconstruction After Genocide” by Wadee Alarabeed.

The issue also includes a discussion titled “The Teacher in New Sociologies of Education” by Mohammed El Idrissi. Also provided is a translation of Clifford Geertz’s “The Wet and the Dry: Traditional Irrigation in Bali and Morocco” by Fouad Aarab. Two book reviews are featured: Mohamed Hilal Elhassani’s review of Current Ecological Trends: An Exercise in Classification and Typology by Khalid Chahbar; and Yassine Atana’s review of Homo Numericus: The Coming “Civilization” by Daniel Cohen. The issue concludes with five previews of recent publications, prepared by the editorial board.