The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies have published Issue 20 (September/October 2025) of the peer-reviewed English language journal Al-Muntaqa: New Perspectives on Arab Studies. The collection features four original studies: “The State and the Arab State in Bishara's Democratic Project: Political-Philosophical Approaches" by Mohammad Othman Mahmoud; “Digital Activism within the Coptic Community in North America: New Transnational Opportunities or Emerging Threats?" by Lilian Estafanous; “Economic Theology in Iraq: The Parallel Economy of Al-Kafeel" by Khalid Mutlaq; and “Toward a Pharmaceutical Anthropology in Morocco: The Biography of Aureomycin from Physical Production to Cultural Reinterpretation" by Farouk Tahri. The collection also includes two book reviews of Mehdi Mabrouk's The 2019 Legislative and Presidential Elections in Tunisia: Politics, Electoral Behaviors, and Elite Mobilization by Brahim Chlaih and of Anas Khaled Nassar's Chinese Strategy Toward Arab States: Goals and Implications for the Future, an Exploration by Yasmine Lahnin.
