The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies have published Issue 19 (May/June 2025) of the peer-reviewed English language journal Al-Muntaqa: New Perspectives on Arab Studies. The collection features five original studies: “From Taxation to Dispossession: Land Governance and the Colonization of Palestine" by Munir Fakher Eldin; “Protecting the Syrian Family: Community Reconstruction and the Unseen Consequences of War" by Araa Al Jaramani; “The Illusion of the Tunisian Exception: Civil Society and Democratic Transition" by Mehdi Mabrouk; “The Role of Urban Transformation in Saudi Arabia's Nation-building: The Case of al-Balad, Jeddah" by Rufei Li; and “Cyberpunk Urban Fantasies in the Gulf: The Line as an Incubator of Modernization in Saudi Arabia and Beyond" by Federico Cugurullo, Isobel Lee, and Rebecca Weir. The collection also includes two reflections titled “Jerusalem: A Closed City" by the Jerusalem Story Team, and “The Whitewashing of History in a Time of Genocide" by Mostafa Minawi. Al-Muntaqa 19 features an analysis of Arab Opinion Index data, “Social Media Use, Trust, and Surveillance in the Arab Region: Insights from the Arab Opinion Index (2024-2025", by Laila Omar, Wajd Beshara, and Nour Chibani. It concludes with two book reviews of Ahmad Amara's Beersheba Region, Southern Ottoman Palestine: Land, Society, and State by Mansour Nasasra and of Ahmed Zeineldin's Death Between Society and Culture by Habib Nahdi.​