The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies have published Issue 18 (January/February 2025) of the peer-reviewed English language journal Al-Muntaqa: New Perspectives on Arab Studies. The collection comprises a special issue on "Water Ways: Critical Studies in Gulf and Arab History", including an introduction by the guest editor Ismail Nashef, in addition to the four studies: "The Sailing Scribe: Mansur al-Khariji and the Oceanic Worlds of the Gulf" by Fahad Ahmad Bishara; "The Drought Years: The Forgotten Economic Transformations in Gulf History" by Amna Abdulla Sadiq; "The Sea vs. the Desert: Rahmah ibn Jabir and the Dialectic of Piracy and Maritime Influence" by Faozi Al-Goidi; and "Star-Tied Water: Tracing Life in a Colonized Palestinian Village During the Anthropocene" by Yasmeen Qadan. The collection also includes an additional study titled "The Litani as a Link: Toward a Better Reconstruction in Lebanon" by Hussein Abdulmunim Amery.

Al-Muntaqa 18 also features an interview with Kate Rouhana titled "'Jerusalem should be open and available to all': A Conversation about Jerusalem Story with Kate Rouhana" and an analysis of Arab Opinion Index data, "Social Media's Socio-Cultural Impacts: An Analysis of the 2022 Arab Opinion Index", by Adel Maalel. It concludes with a book review by Hichem Charfi of As-Saghira Ben Hamida's The History and Memory of the Sea in Modern Tunisia: Between the Oral and the Written.