The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS) and the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies have published Issue 13 (Summer 2026) of the Hikama journal on public policy and public administration.
This issue includes the following articles: “Silence or Silencing? Social Media Behaviour among Palestinians in Israel after October 2023," by Hama Abu-Kishk; “Associational Work and the Shift toward Social Entrepreneurship in Morocco," by Abdelkader Boutaleb and Amar Rami; “Social Media and the Paradox of Liberation and Control: A Study of Arab Cases," by Marwa Fekri; “Denial of the Right of Return as a Crime against Humanity: Palestinian Refugees and the Limits of International Criminal Justice," by Nasser Thabet; and “Constitutional Courts or Cross-Jurisdiction Courts: The Debate on the Expansiveness of Jurisdiction in Arab Constitutional Courts and its Implications," by Rashad Twam and Asem Khalil.
The issue also contains a policy paper titled “The Role of Humanitarian Funds Localisation in Disaster Risk Reduction and Management: The Case of Water Shocks in Jordan," by Samer Al-Fakhouri, Muhanad Abu Othman, and Majd Al Naber. The translation section features “The Two Tales of AI: A Global Assessment of the Environmental Impacts of Artificial Intelligence from a Multidimensional Policy Perspective," by Ibrahim Al-Nafrah, translated by Mohammad Falha.
The Book Reviews section features Mahdi Al-Awrabi's review of The Governance of Economic Development: Investment, Innovation, and Competition in China, by Anson Au, and Husam Ibrahim's review of Public Policy in the Arab World: Responding to Uprisings, Pandemic, and War, edited by Anis B. Brik.
Finally, the editorial board presents six featured publications: Le "frère", le "sujet" et le citoyen: Dynamique du statut politique de l'Individu en Tunisie, by Abdelhamid Hénia; Politics in the Crevices: Urban Design and the Making of Property Markets in Cairo and Istanbul, by Sarah El-Kazaz; The Political Economy of Climate Finance Effectiveness in Developing Countries: Carbon Markets, Climate Funds, and the State, by Mark Purdon; Skills, Values, and Development: The Political Economy of Education in Latin America, edited by Juan A. Bogliaccini and Aldo Madariaga; Globally Competent Governance: Strategies for Building Welcoming and Inclusive Communities, by Michael Guo-Brennan; and Innovation in the Local Public Sector: A Critical Analysis, by Lorraine Johnston and John Fenwick.
