Al Mustaqbal Al Arabi

The Arab Future (Al Mustaqbal Al Arabi) is a peer-reviewed monthly Arabic journal published by the Center for Arab Unity Studies since 1978. It is concerned with the affairs of the Arab world, its renaissance and unity, and what is related to it and affects it regionally and internationally at various political, economic, social, cultural, environmental, scientific and technological levels. The journal stimulates a critical sense, and seeks in its various sections to provide a scientific, rational and objective reading of the issues and files raised or important Arab and international, as it discusses controversial issues from multiple perspectives.

The topics of the journal are divided into different sections, each of which has its own criteria and for publishing its conditions. It expands its pages to various Arab researchers and gives priority to new texts, both at the level of data and information, or at the level of methodological and theoretical approaches and conclusions.

Publication in Al Mustaqbal Al Arabi Journal is based on a set of methodological and ethical standards for scholarly research:

Methodological standards: chief among them are the added value the research offers; sound theoretical grounding; starting from questions that have no definitive answers; a central research problem; the use of methodologies suited to the topic; the accuracy and reliability of information; verbatim quotation; reliance on concrete data and facts, and on accumulated knowledge and earlier and recent research findings; reliance on original sources and access to the most recent of them; strict accuracy in footnotes and references; a coherent textual structure and clear, cohesive language; and the avoidance of padding and repetition, preconceived answers, selectivity, generalizations drawn from particulars, and prejudgments unsupported by evidence.

Ethical standards: these include that the text be free of plagiarism and literary theft; that the contributions of research assistants not be overlooked; that information be accurate; that no quoted information, including tables, charts and maps, be incorporated into the text without citing its source; that quoted texts be reproduced exactly; that information and positions attributed to particular sources or parties not be distorted; and that the research not be padded with fictitious references that were never actually used in it. The research must not be generated, wholly or in part, by artificial intelligence applications; nor drawn from websites that are not academically recognized or of established credibility; nor taken from websites without citing the source. It must not have been published elsewhere previously, nor submitted to another outlet for simultaneous publication without disclosing this.