The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies have published the 10th issue (Spring 2025), of Hikama, the biannual peer-reviewed public administration and public policy journal.

This issue includes the following six articles: “Critique of Community Reconstruction Institutions and Organizations: The Unseen Consequences of War, The Syrian Family as a Case Study,” by Araa al Jaramani; “Decentralization in Morocco: Structural Deficiencies and Implementation Constraints,” by Omar Iharchane; “'The Impact of Climate Multi-level Governance in Urban Sustainability: The Shenzhen Model,” by Marwa Sobhy Montasser; “Palestinian Local Government: Characteristics and Challenges,” by Feras Ali Qawasmeh and Mohamed Waleed Al-Medalal; “Developmental Impact of Health Services Governance: The Case of Alexandria Hospitals,” by Amira Mohamad Shehata; and “Moroccan Development Strategies between Institutionalization of Power and Personalization: Review of the New Development Model,” by Mohamed Elmsaoui.

The issue contains a translation of “The Real Dangers of Generative AI,” by Danielle Allen and E. Glen Wey (translated By Abdou Moussa El-Bermawy). Four reviews are also included: Abdulfatah Said Mohamed’s review of Conflict Mediation in the Arab World, edited by Ibrahim Fraihat and Isaac Svenssonby; as well as Hikama’s editorial board’s reviews of Government and Political Trust: The Quest for Positive Public Administration by Grant Duncan; The Cambridge Handbook of the Law, Ethics and Policy of Artificial Intelligence edited by Natalie A Smuha; and Offshore Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism by Brooke Harrington.