The 40th edition of Tabayyun has been published by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and the Doha institute for Graduate Studies. This issue includes the following articles: " The Palestinian Feminist Novel Writes Back" by Hanane El Aissi; " From Narrative (Poetic) Discourse Analysis to Hypertext (Cybernetic) Analysis: Said Yaktine’s Literary Criticism Project" by Said Ouabou; " The Representation of Hybrid Identity in Saud Alsanousi’s Novel The Bamboo Stalk" by Mohammed Bouazza; " Critique of the Colonial Historicization of Scientific Thought in China: The Joseph Needham Paradox." by Khaled Qutb; " The Concept of Biopolitics between Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben" by Amer Shatara and Dua Nassar; " Ijmāʿ and its Dilemmas Hasan Hanafi’s Thought" by Abdulaziz Al-Jaber; "Questions and Transformations from the Age of Reason to Postmodernism" by Mohammed AL-mahjari.

Anas Ibrahim provides the issue with a translation of Marcelo Svirsky's "The Production of Terra Nullius and the Palestinian-Zionist Conflict".

The issue also contains Zouheir Soukah's review of Freedom is Always and Exclusively Freedom for the One who Thinks Differently by Rosa Luxembourg.