Contemporary Arab Affairs
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About The Journal
Contemporary Arab Affairs is the international quarterly journal of the Centre for Arab Unity Studies. It is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal that publishes high-quality and original research from and on the Arab region. Contemporary Arab Affairs seeks to publish work by specialists, policy experts and scholars from the Arab world or those who have academic interest in the region. Drawing on the expertise of the Centre for Arab Unity Studies, a well-established publisher of research in Arabic, Contemporary Arab Affairs has the objective to publish and circulate authentic research and studies originally produced in Arabic by Arab researchers and intellectuals and make them available to a global international audience and with the aim of promoting constructive dialogue between Arabs and the West. As of 2023, Contemporary Arab Affairs will be published in collaboration with BRILL, a long-standing international publishing house with a rich history spanning more than three centuries.
The editorial Board
Ali Eddine Hillal Dessouki
Editor-in-Chief
Cairo University (Egypt)
Jamal Wakim
Managing Editor
Lebanese University (Lebanon)
Ali Abdullatif Ahmida
University of New England (USA)
Ali Kadri
National University of Singapore (Singapore)
Aziz Azmeh
Central European University (Austria)
Giacomo Luciani
The Graduate Institute Geneva (Switzerland)
James Piscatori
Australian National University (Australia)
Jamil Hilal
Birzeit University
(Palestine)
Jennifer Skulte-Ouaiss
Lebanese American University Beirut (Lebanon)
Lisa Anderson
Columbia University
(USA)
Luna Abuswaireh
Centre for Arab Unity Studies (Lebanon)
Omar Al Shehabi
Gulf Centre for Development Policies (Kuwait)
Paul Aarts
University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Paul Tabar
Lebanese American University Beirut (Lebanon)
Ricardo René Larémont
SUNY Binghamton
(USA)
Saif Da’na
University of Wisconsin-Parkside (USA)
Timothy Niblock
University of Exeter (UK)
Yahia Zoubir
KEDGE Business School-Marseille (France)
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We invite authors to submit original work for review and possible publication
Topics of particular interest include: Arab civil society, Arab culture and globalization, Arab development issues, Arab political and social thought, Peace and Conflict issues in the Arab region, Economies of the Middle East, environmental risks and security in the Arab region, gender issues in the Arab region, governance and democratization, media and communication, and other related issues.
Fares Abi Saab
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Director of the editorial department and Edit Manager of The Arab Future magazine (Al-Mustaqbal Al-Arabi)
Fares Is the Director of the Editorial Department and Al-Mustaqbal Al-Arabi magazine since 2012. As a researcher in social sciences, he has published a number of studies in Arab periodicals, and chapters in books, on various contemporary Arab or global issues, such as the political parties in the Arab world, the culture of political corruption, the crisis of democracy in Lebanon, Arabs and modernity, the Palestinian issue, and the Arab revolutions and the future of the Middle East… in addition to a number of studies and articles on various topics published in Lebanese or Arab newspapers.
From the beginning of the nineties until today, he has successively managed the editorial publishing of various studies departments in a number of Centers, including the Center for Arab Unity Studies (2012-2018), the Lebanese Center for Studies (1993-2006), and the Gulf Research Center (2006-2009), and the Financial Institute – Beirut (2009-2011). He contributed to the founding of the quarterly magazine Abaad (Beirut) and managed its editorship (1993-1997). He also contributed to the founding of the quarterly magazine Al-Sadisah (Beirut) and was its editor-in-chief (2011).
He holds a postgraduate diploma in development sociology from the Lebanese University.

Gaby El-Khoury
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Director of Studies and Documentation Department
Gaby Is the Director of Studies and Documentation Department since 2004, in addition to being Director of Administrative Affairs. He has expertise in project management in the private sector, and worked at the center from the mid-eighties until 1996 in the documentation department.
He supervised the preparation of the book series – Diaries and Documents of Arab Unity from 1987 until 1996, updating the book on Unity Projects 1913-2009, and the book The War on Iraq: Diaries – Documents – Reports 1991-2005.
He holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration from the American University of Beirut.

Younis Khalil
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Financial Director
Younis Is the Finance Director at the Center for Arab Unity Studies since February 2016. He began his career as an accountant 25 years ago. He held the position of Head of Accounting at Gray Worldwide Group, Director of Finance and the head of Administration, Information Technology, and Shipping and Logistics departments at Bardawil International Group. In addition, he was as an auditor at Moore-Stephens, one of the largest international auditing companies. Mr. Younis Khalil holds a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and a Master’s in Business Administration.

Luna AbuSwaireh
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Luna Abuswaireh, Director-General and Editor-in-Chief for “Mustaqbal Arabi” Journal
Luna Abuswaireh is the Director-General of the Center for Arab Unity Studies since May 2017. Her professional experience extends to more than twenty years in managing development Programmes in international organizations and in collaboration with intergovernmental bodies. Before joining the Center, she held the position of Head of the Regional Office for Arab States of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) in Cairo. She also coordinated Climate Change portfolio for UNDRR in Bonn, worked on global disaster risk reduction policy and Programme planning at UNDRR in Geneva, and worked as a Programme Officer at UN Volunteer programs/UNDP in charge of Programmes in the Balkans and South Asia. She started her career as a Project Officer managing a UNDP project on youth development and participation in the refugee camps in Gaza Strip, Palestine.
Ms Abuswaireh contributed to many international and regional reports and to the preparation of Arab strategies concerned with climate challenges, disaster risk reduction and sustainable development. She coordinated and successfully launched a number of development initiatives and projects, organized regional and global conferences, the most important of which was the establishment of the Arab Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, which was held for the first time in Aqaba in 2013 and being held annually since then.
Ms Luna Abuswaireh holds a Master’s degree in Public and International affairs from Pittsburgh, USA and a Postgraduate Diploma in Feminist Development Economics from the Netherlands.

The Arab Journal of Economic Research
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About The Journal
The Arab Journal of Economic Research is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Arab Society for Economic Research in cooperation with the Centre for Arab Unity Studies since 2007. The Journal is concerned with Arab economic affairs and aims to encourage theoretical and applied economic research, follow-up issues of the global economy, and the documentary activity of economic data, information and knowledge. The journal’s topics are divided into studies, articles, statistics, files, book reviews and conferences.
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The Arab Journal of Political Science
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About the Journal
The Arab Journal of Political Science, is a refereed journal published by the Arab Association for Political Science in cooperation with the Centre for Arab Unity Studies since 2006. The journal aims to publish studies and articles dealing with theoretical political affairs and various Arab, regional and national strategic issues. The themes of the journal are divided into different sections between files, studies, opinions, book reviews and reports. It also seeks through the association to develop relations between Arab researchers in the field of political science in the Arab countries and the call for freedom of opinion and thought.
Publication Standards
- The Arab Journal of Political Science welcomes the publication of research and studies of high academic caliber. The journal welcomes submissions whether in paper or electronic format, as long as they are written in Arabic, and not published elsewhere.
- A main requirement for publishing in the journal is for the research or study to meet the scientific standards, in terms of methodology, rooting and presenting new schemes, relying on tangible data and facts, ensuring the validity of information, honesty in quoting and accurate margins and scientific referencing in a manner that covers all required information about the source (Whether it is a book, an article, or a report…), in coherent, clear textual and linguistic structure, far from stuffing, repetition, from generalizations and selectivity, and from prejudices that are not based on evidence and accumulations of knowledge and valid research results.
- The study is to include an executive summary within 100 words, in both Arabic and English; an introduction, a methodological outline, and a theoretical framework, which includes the basic idea of the study, its objectives, the methodologies it adopts, the questions it raises, and a theoretical basis for the research, provided that the volume of these sections does not exceed 15 percent of the text. This is to be followed by the body, dealing with the topic of the research from general to specific, along several chapters and multi-level subheadings. The body is to occupy about 75 percent of the research. At last, the conclusion, which briefly presents the most important assumptions that the research reached, and come out with brief deductions and recommendations (10 percent of the text). The size of the study (including the executive summary and footnotes or references) should not exceed 7,000-8,000 words.
- All contributions sent to the journal that comply with the publishing conditions set forth above are reviewed and presented to the journal’s arbitration committee for approval or rejection, with the journal’s right to request from the author to make amendments. The writer is notified of the arbitration committee’s decision within a period of 6-8 weeks.
- Research and studies, and other texts intended for publication, are to be sent in electronic format (Microsoft Word), to the Center for Arab Unity Studies on the following email (info@caus.org.lb) or at the editor in Chief’s mail (alichokr@gmail.com).
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Idafat Journal
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About The Journal
Idafat, The Arab Journal of Sociology, is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Arab Society for Sociology in collaboration with the Centre for Arab Unity Studies since 2008. The journal aims to publish solemn studies based on theoretical and field research in the field of social sciences and humanities. The topics of the magazine are divided into themes, researches, studies and book reviews.
Publication Standards
- The Arab Journal of Sociology (Idafat) welcomes the publication of research and studies of high academic caliber. The journal welcomes submissions whether in paper or electronic format, as long as they are written in Arabic, and not published elsewhere.
- A main requirement for publishing in the journal is for the research or study to meet the scientific standards, in terms of methodology, rooting and presenting new schemes, relying on tangible data and facts, ensuring the validity of information, honesty in quoting and accurate margins and scientific referencing in a manner that covers all required information about the source (Whether it is a book, an article, or a report…), in coherent, clear textual and linguistic structure, far from stuffing, repetition, from generalizations and selectivity, and from prejudices that are not based on evidence and accumulations of knowledge and valid research results.
- The study is to include an executive summary within 100 words, in both Arabic and English; an introduction, a methodological outline, and a theoretical framework, which includes the basic idea of the study, its objectives, the methodologies it adopts, the questions it raises, and a theoretical basis for the research, provided that the volume of these sections does not exceed 15 percent of the text. This is to be followed by the body, dealing with the topic of the research from general to specific, along several chapters and multi-level subheadings. The body is to occupy about 75 percent of the research. At last, the conclusion, which briefly presents the most important assumptions that the research reached, and come out with brief deductions and recommendations (10 percent of the text). The size of the study (including the executive summary and footnotes or references) should not exceed 7,000-8,000 words.
- All contributions sent to the journal that comply with the publishing conditions set forth above are reviewed and presented to the journal’s arbitration committee for approval or rejection, with the journal’s right to request from the author to make amendments. The writer is notified of the arbitration committee’s decision within a period of 6-8 weeks.
- Research and studies, and other texts intended for publication, are to be sent in electronic format (Microsoft Word), to the Center for Arab Unity Studies on the following email (info@caus.org.lb).
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Hamazat Library
An online book delivery store
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Libya
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- Misurata, Libya
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Saqi Books
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Advisory Committees
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Members of Advisory Committees
Abhar Al Sakka
Associate Professor, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Birzeit University, PhD in Sociology from the University of Nantes, France. He worked as a lecturer and visiting professor at French universities and research centers 2009-2017. He has done many studies in the fields of social artistic expressions, social movements, identity, memory, nationalities, social policies, social history of Gaza City.
Bashir Ali Kut
Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Tripoli, PHD in Conflict Management, and Director of the Mediterranean Center for Studies. Interested in Libyan affairs, African studies, Maghreb, National Security, Migration and Crisis Issues. Recent publications include: “Managing Ethnic Conflicts in Africa”, Dar Noun, Germany, 2017; “Libya Identity, Tyranny and Revolution”, Mosaic Press for Printing, Publishing and Distribution, Tripoli, 2012; “African Unity in the Twentieth Century”, Tripoli, 2004; “African Union: A Study in International Organization”, Tripoli, 2010.
Al-Arous Al-Zubair
Professor of Sociology and Director of the Laboratory of Religious Sociology at the University of Algiers. His interests include religious movements in all their partisan and community manifestations, and at levels of economic and charitable activity. His most notable work is: “The Movement in Algeria: Reality and Prospects”, Algeria, 2013.
Ayman Mansour Nada
Holds a MA and PHD in Public Opinion and International Media from Cairo University, and MA and PHD in Political Science and International Relations from the American University in Cairo and the University of Georgia. He is the head Radio and Television Department, Faculty of Mass Communication at the Cairo University. Among his publications: “Arab and Islamic countries in the American public opinion polls 1935 – 2018” (5 volumes, Centre for Arab Unity Studies); and “The Day of the Fall of Baghdad: Arab Rulers in the Eyes of Their People”.
Baqer Al-Najjar
Holds a PHD from the University of Durham in England in 1983, and a professor of Sociology at the University of Bahrain. He received The Sheikh Zayed Award for 2009. His most prominent works include: “Voluntary Social Work in the Arabian Gulf, Sociology of Society in the Persian Gulf”, and “Religious Movements in the Persian Gulf”.
Charles Harb
Professor of Psychology and former head of the Department of Psychology at the American University of Beirut, specializes in the field of social and political psychology, especially issues of identity and teamwork and conflict between groups. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Social and Political Psychology. He has published several publications in Arabic and English, including: “Problems of Democracy and Development in the Arab Region: A Reform Approach to the Rule of Law”, Al-Halabi Publications, Beirut, and in Foreign Language: Harb, C. (2016). “Arab Region: Culture, Values, and Identities”, in: M. Amer & G. Awad (Eds), Handbook of Arab American Psychology, pp. 3-19, New York: Routledge.
Jamal Wakim
Professor of history and international relations at the Lebanese University, and holds a PHD in international relations and the history of the Middle East from St. Joseph University in 2004. Worked in journalism and published many articles. Among his most recent publications: “Crime and Punishment”, Publications Company, 2018; “Questions about the Historical Founder of the Lebanese Entity”, The Arab Future, No. 467, 2018.
Hamdi Abdulrahman Hassan
Professor of Political Science at Zayed and Cairo Universities. He is the founding director of the Egyptian-African Studies Program at Cairo University from 2000 to 2002. His books include: The Soft Power Path: UAE and Africa, Abu Dhabi: Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture, 2019; In foreign language: “Africa and the Middle East: Shifting Alliances and Strategic Partnerships”, in: Nagar D., Mutasa C. (eds) Africa and the World, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.2018.
Darim Al Bassam
He holds a PHD in Sociology from the University of Pittsburgh. He is an expert in development and has served for more than two decades as a senior consultant at UNDP. He also participated in the preparation of economic plans for a number of Arab countries, and the founders of the Arab Planning Institute. His contributions to intellectual and developmental issues in accordance with the approach of cognitive pluralism in the social sciences.
Said Bensaid Alaoui
Professor of Islamic political and modern thought at the University of Mohammed V, Morocco. His interests include philosophy, social history and political thought. His most prominent books are: “The State of the Caliphate: A Study in Political Mawardi Thinking”; “Jurisprudence and Politics”; “Ideology and Modernity”; “Readings in Contemporary Arab Thought”.
Abdullah Al-Breidy
Holds a PHD in Business Administration from the University of Manchester in England, and a professor of Management Economics and Management in the Qassim University. Among his most prominent publications: “The Trap of Neoliberalism in the Arab Gulf States: Saving an Economy or Dumping a Society?” (Centre for Arab Unity studies); “Towards the Study of Local Personality: An Applied Systematic Framework on Saudi Qasimiya” (Arab Diffusion Company); and “Sustainable Development” (Obeikan).
Abdul Malik Issa
Holds a PHD in Political Sociology, and a dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sana’a University, Yemen. Among his works: “Political Islam Movements in Yemen” (Centre for Arab Unity Studies).
Abdulhadi Al-Ajala
PHD in Political Studies from the University of Milan. He is a Research Associate and Regional Director of the Arabian Gulf at the Institute of Democracy at the Swedish Gothenburg University. His interests focus on the issues of divided societies, democracy, social capital, and philosophy of religion. It was published in English and Arabic. Last published: “Very close, politically distant: Bosnian-Palestinian relations ”, The Arab Future, Issue 477, 2018.
Ali Khalifa
PHD in Education (University of Geneva, Switzerland), full-time professor of higher education (Lebanese University, Faculty of Education), and is interested in education studies. It focuses in particular on issues of citizenship. Among its most recent publications are: “Citizenship and the Paths of the State: A Critical Analytical Study of the Relationship between Citizenship and the State”, in the Arab Journal of Political Science, Double Issue (39-40), 2013; “Education and Citizenship Blown by Factors of Identity and Belonging Crisis: Approaches to Citizenship Education in Curricula for Teacher Education in Lebanese Universities”, in the Journal of Contemporary Education, published by the Faculty of Education, University of Alexandria, No. (97), 2014; “Citizenship and the State in Islam: Critique of Islam as a Political System”, The Arab Future, Issue (427), 2014.
Malik Al-Mahdi
Professor of future studies and studies at Sudan University of Science and Technology in Khartoum. He is the founder and Secretary General of the Arab Association for Future Studies and a member of the World Association for Future Studies. Published a number of scientific papers in refereed journals at the national and regional level.
Mohamed Hasb El-Rassoul
A writer and political analyst who published many articles and studies, especially on the Sudanese affairs. He is currently Deputy Secretary General of the Arab National Congress. Among his published studies are: “The Sudan Revolution and the Challenge of Kidnapping” (The Arab Future, No. 486 August 2019; “Features of the Strategic Direction of Egyptian Diplomacy in Africa, 1952-1970” (The Arab Future, No. 479, January 2019; and “The Impact of South Sudan’s Secession on Arab National Security” (Middle East Studies, Number 58).
Mohamed Halim Limam
Holds a PHD in Political Science and International Relations, and a professor at the Faculty of Political Science and International Relations University of Algiers 3. Among the most prominent publications: “The Phenomenon of Political Corruption in Algeria: Causes, Effects and Reform”; “Systemic Corruption and Authoritarian State: the case of Algeria Since Independence”.
Mohamed Noureddine Afaya
Professor of Modern Philosophy and Aesthetics, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Mohammed V University, Rabat. Among his most recent works are: “Contemporary Philosophical Criticism, Its Western Sources and its Arab Manifestations”, Center for Arab Unity Studies, Beirut, 2014; “Incomplete Democracy, The Possibilities of Breaking Out of Authoritarianism and its Constraints, Knowledge Forum”, Beirut, 2013.
Mahmoud Haddad
Professor of History at Balamand University in Lebanon. He received his PHD in Modern Arab History from Columbia University in New York in 1989, and worked at Columbia University as an Associate Professor for 10 years. He is the author of several books in Arabic and English, most recently: “Is there a border between race, class and religion? Donald Trump and Lutherb Stoddard”, The Arab Future (May 2019); “The West and its Model as Barriers to Arab Renaissance”, in the book “Accompanied by Gregory Zidane: Renaissance in the Present”, University of Balamand, 2015, pp. 305-316. He has participated in international encyclopedias, including: The Encyclopedia of the Muslim World, the Encyclopedia Britannica’s Yearbook (1998-2012), The Encyclopedia of The Modern Middle East.
Mostafa Al-Tir
Professor of sociology at Libyan universities and former president of the Arab Society of Sociology. Published several books, studies and researches including: “Development and modernization: a field study in Libyan society”; “The process of modernizing the Libyan society: aligning the old and new”; “The conflict of the tent and the palace”; “A critical vision of the Libyan modernist project; questions of modernity and democratic transition in Libya: the difficult task;” The Libyan Spring : Nothing has changed except the faces and names ”, in the seventh Arab report on cultural development.
Mozaffar Hassan Elrezu
Professor of Strategic Planning and Project Management, specializing in e-governance and e-readiness. Published several studies in the fields of electronic readiness and digital economy, the most important of which are: “Information Space” (Centre for Arab Unity studies); and “Arab Social Communication Space: Imagined Groups and its Knowledge Discourse” (Centre for Arab Unity studies).
Hisham Safieddine
Assistant Professor of Modern Middle East History at King’s College, University of London. He is a researcher in the history of the modern political economy of the Arab Mashreq countries, including the history of the formation of financial systems and the history of Arab and Islamic economic thought, and an expert in the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Walid Khadoury
He holds a PHD in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University and an expert in the economics of oil and energy. He is also a consultant for the Middle East Economic Survey – MEES. He was Director of Research at the Institute for Palestine Studies, then Professor of Political Science at Kuwait University, then Director of Information at the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries. He is a weekly columnist on oil policy in several Arab newspapers, and has written several oil articles in periodicals in English.
Abdelkader Dendenne
An associate professor at the University of Annaba in Algeria and a researcher specialized in Asian affairs, with numerous publications and research papers in the field, including: Sira’ Al-Duwal Al-Kubra fi Al-Hindupacific “The Struggle between Great Powers in the Indo-Pacific: Reimagining the Strategic Map of Asia” published by Al Jazeera Center for Studies; As-Sin wa Azmat at-Taqa: Mutalazemat Tazayud at-Talab fi ad-Dakhil wa at-Taba’iya lil Kharij "China and the Energy Crisis: The Dilemma of Increasing Domestic Demand and External Dependence"; Al-Adwar al-Iqlimiyya lil Quwwa as-Sa'ida fi al-'Alaqat ad-Dawliyya "The Regional Roles of Emerging Powers in International Relations".
He also supervises several research projects, including: Jiyobolitik an-Naza'at fi Qarat Asiya "The Geopolitics of Conflicts in the Asian Continent", Ad-Diblomasiyat al-Thalath fi Siyasat as-Sin al-Kharijiya "The Three Diplomacies in China's Foreign Policy" and Jiyobolitik al-Madha'iq wal Mamarat al-Bahriyya al-'Alamiyya "The Geopolitics of Global Straits and Maritime Passages".