The ACRPS has published Issue 5 (October/November 2019) of its peer-reviewed journal AlMuntaqa, dedicated to Humanities and Social Sciences, and published in English. The issue includes the following studies: “History told by the vanquished: A critical reading of 1947-1948 war diaries as historical sources” by Bilal Mohammed Shalash; “Nakba Diaries: Unsettling the Scale and Temporality of Historical Writing” by Alex Winder; “Remarks on External Factors in Democratic Transition” by Azmi Bishara; “Actors, Structures and Qatari Foreign Policy” by Marwan Kabalan; and “Transformations of Manama: Equations of Demography, Islamization and Commercialization” by Nader Kadhim.

AlMuntaqa 5 also contains an analysis of the Arab Opinion Index: “Public Opinion and The Army: The Cases of Algeria and Sudan” by Dana Elkurd, and two book reviews of Omar Hesham AlShehabi’s Exporting Wealth and Entrenching Alienation: A History of Productive Imbalance in the Gulf States by Baqer Alnajjar; and Faleh Abdel Jabbar’s The Caliphate State: Advancing Towards the Past, ISIL and the Local Community in Iraq by Chamseddin Alkilani.