Issue 10

Jun, 2025

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.

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