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The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies have published Issue 16 (May/June 2024) of the peer-reviewed English language journal Al-Muntaqa: New Perspectives on Arab Studies. The issue includes the following studies: “Between Empires and Nation: Memories of the Great War and Iraqi National Identity” by Dina Khoury; “An Unstable Transitional Period: Transformations of the Hybrid Coalition in Sudan” by Hassan Elhag Ali Ahmad; “Iraq’s Judiciary: Problems of Unrestricted Independence” by Firas Mekkiya; “Struggling to Fit: The Case of Saudi-Born Millennial Returnees of Palestinian Origin to Jordan” by Abdallah S. Abolouz; and “Colonial Paternalism under Israeli Military Rule (1967-1977): ‘Social Welfare’ as a Tool of Control” by Ashraf Othman Bader and Asem Khalil.

Al-Muntaqa 16 also features an analysis of Arab Opinion Index data, “Israel’s War on Gaza: Views from Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon”, by Yara Nassar. It concludes with a book review by Yassine Haggan of Rachid Benbih’s New Women’s Migrations in Africa: Determinants and Dynamics.