Editorial Team
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General Supervisor
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Prof. Badrane Benlahcene, Director of Ibn Khaldon Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Qatar University
Professor Badrane Benlahcene is a Research Professor and Director of the Ibn Khaldon Center for Humanities and Social Sciences at Qatar University. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy and Civilization Studies from Universiti Putra Malaysia. His scholarly work focuses on civilization studies, contemporary Islamic thought, comparative religious studies, knowledge integration, and knowledge production in the humanities and social sciences. He has published numerous books and peer-reviewed studies on civilization, the thought of Malek Bennabi, Islamophobia, Qur'anic ethics, and interdisciplinary studies. He has also contributed to the editing of academic journals, encyclopedias, and international research projects. Professor Benlahcene has extensive experience in research leadership, academic supervision, peer review, and the development of research programs and initiatives. His current research interests include knowledge reform, critical humanities, civilizational renewal, and the advancement of interdisciplinary approaches in the humanities and social sciences.
ORCID:0000-0002-9742-2108
SCOPUS Author ID: 5721837369
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EDITOR -IN-CHIEF
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Dr. Ebaidalla Mahjoub Ebaidalla, Associate Research Professor of Economics at Ibn Khaldon Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Qatar University
Bio: Dr. Ebaidalla Mahjoub Ebaidalla is an Associate Research Professor of Economics at the Ibn Khaldon Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Qatar University. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Khartoum and has more than 15 years of academic and research experience. Before joining Qatar University in 2021, he served as Head of the Department of Economics at the University of Khartoum. His research interests include international trade, energy economics, development economics, and sustainable development, with a particular focus on policy and quantitative research. He has served as a consultant on research and development projects for several international organizations, including the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the International Labour Organization (ILO), and the World Bank. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed international journals, including African Development Review, Energy, Cleaner and Responsible Consumption, and Journal of Environmental Management. Dr. Ebaidalla has received research grants from regional and international institutions, including African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), Global Development Network (GDN), and QRDI. He also received the Carnegie Fellowship for Arab Researchers at the University of Minnesota during 2018-2019 and was a Visiting Researcher at UNU-WIDER, Helsinki, in 2019. He is a Research Fellow at the Economic Research Forum (ERF).
SCOPUS Author ID: 56179728100
ORCID:000-0002-7561-6454
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Editorial Committee Members
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Prof. Tayeb Bouzza, Professor of Philosophy at the Tangier-Tetouan Academy, Morocco
Email: tayebbouazza@yahoo.fr
Tayeb Bouazza, holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Faculty of Arts, Mohammed V University, Rabat 2002. He is currently a professor of higher education at the Teacher Training Center, Tangier-Tetouan Academy. He is a Lecturer in the Master of Interpretations at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities in Tetouan, Abdel-Malik Al-Saadi University, a member of the jury for the Morocco Book Award in 2020, and he is an academic advisor to the Nohoudh Center for Studies and Publications, Kuwait (from 2016 to now). He published thirteen books, including eight parts in the History of Western Philosophical Thought series, including: “The Implication of Philosophy and the Question of Origins”, Namaa Center for Research and Studies, Beirut (2012), “Pre-Socratic Philosophy, Maltese Philosophy”, Namaa Center for Research and Studies, Beirut (2013), “Pythagoras and Pythagoreans, Between the Magic of Mathematics and the Mystery of Existence”, Nama Center for Research and Studies, Beirut (2014), and “In Defense of the Sophists”, Nama Center for Research and Studies, Beirut (2017)”, and several other publications.
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Prof. Adnan Yousef Atoum, Professor of Social and Cognitive Psychology, Yarmouk University, Jordan
Email: atoum@yu.edu.jo
ORCID: 0000-0001-7492-2487
SCOPUS author ID: 6506261621
Professor Adnan Yousef Atoum is a highly accomplished academic and expert in the field of psychology. He obtained his PhD in Social-Cognitive Psychology from Texas Christian University in 1990 and currently teaches at the Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology at Yarmouk University, Jordan. In addition to his academic work, Professor Atoum also serves as the head of the trustee board of Irbid Private University. Throughout his career, Professor Atoum has held numerous prestigious positions, including President of Al-Albyte University and Vice President and Dean of Education and Psychology at Yarmouk University. He has also taught at international institutions such as Sharjah University-UAE and College of Education, Sultanate of Oman. With a passion for research, Professor Atoum has published over 100 research articles and 18 books on various psychological issues. His work has been widely recognized and respected, and he has served as Chief-Editor and member of editorial and consultation boards at several research journals worldwide. His research interests include Thinking Skills, Cognitive Processes, Social Interaction, Deception, and Group Productivity.
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Prof. Faeghe Shirazi , Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin, U.S.A
Email: fshirazi@austin.utexas.edu
SCOPUS author ID: 35276345100
Google Scholar : https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=ar&user=yk-maaIAAAAJ
Dr. Faegheh Shirazi is a Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. She holds a Ph.D. from Ohio State University. Shirazi’s specialisations and research interests include popular religious practices; rituals and their influence on gender identity and discourse in Muslim societies, with a primary focus on Iran Islamic veiling Material culture, textile and clothing. She also specializes in the study of Islamic veiling, material culture, textiles and clothing. Dr. Shirazi has made significant contributions to academia and has published extensively in various prestigious academic peer-reviewed journals at both national and international levels. Her publications encompass a diverse range of topics within her field of expertise. Notably, she is the author of several influential books, including "Brand Islam: The Marketing and Commodification of Piety" (2016), "Velvet Jihad: Muslim Women's Quiet Resistance to Islamic Fundamentalism" (2009), and "The Veil Unveiled: Hijab in Modern Culture" (2001). Additionally, she has served as the editor of "Muslim Women in War and Crisis: From Reality to Representation" (2010).
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Dr. Batoul Khalifa, Associate Professor of Mental Health, Qatar University, Qatar
Email: batoul@qu.edu.qa
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4217-4100
SCOPUS author ID: 26221774600
Dr. Batoul Khalifa is an Emeritus Associate Professor in Mental Health at Qatar University. She holds a Ph.D. in Educational Philosophy (Mental Health) from Ain Shams University, where she conducted a study on the role conflict experienced by Qatari women workers and its impact on the psychological well-being of mothers and children. She led numerous successful projects and workshops in Qatar and globally. In addition, Batoul Khalifa serves as the Chair of the Quality Assurance and Program Improvement Committee at the College of Education at Qatar University. She has also served as a former board member of DISE and has worked as a reviewer for the International Journal of Multicultural Learning and Teaching. Dr. Batoul's research interests encompass a range of topics, including women and family psychology, child maltreatment, youth creativity, and quality assurance in higher education. She has made significant contributions as a co-author of several books in Arabic, such as "Trends Towards Domestic Workers and their Impact on Family Upbringing Methods and Psychological Compatibility of Children in Qatar: An Analytical Study" (2006), and "Learning Difficulties Between Theory and Application" (2007). Furthermore, she has published her work in peer-reviewed academic journals and presented at various national and international conferences.
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Dr. Sahar Khamis, Associate Professor of Mass Communication & Media, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
Email: skhamis@umd.edu
SCOPUS author ID: 35761475400
Sahar Khamis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is an expert on Arab and Muslim media, and the former Head of the Mass Communication Department in Qatar University. Dr. Khamis holds a Ph.D. in Mass Media and Cultural Studies from the University of Manchester in England. She is a former Mellon Islamic Studies Initiative Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago. Dr. Khamis has made significant contributions to the field through her research and publications. She is the co-author of “Islam Dot Com: Contemporary Islamic Discourses in Cyberspace” (2009) and “Egyptian Revolution 2.0: Political Blogging, Civic Engagement and Citizen Journalism” (2013). She is the co-editor of “Arab Women’s Activism and Socio-Political Transformation: Unfinished Gendered Revolutions” (2018). She authored and co-authored numerous book chapters, journal articles and conference papers, regionally and internationally, in both English and Arabic.
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Dr. Houcine Soudani, Professor of Linguistics Studies, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia
Email: Houcine.soudani@issht.utm.tn
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9404-1027
Dr. Houcine Al Soudani holds a Tunisian University excellence degree, a doctorate degree in Linguistics with honors, and a Certificate of Advanced Studies. He is a research team member of the “Discourse Analysis” and the “Grammar of Discourse and Pragmatic Rhetoric” laboratory at the University of Manouba in Tunisia. He worked as a professor of Linguistics at the Higher Institute of Humanities Sciences in Tunisia and the Tunisia Virtual University. Dr. Al Soudani has carried out several research works in Linguistics and has collaborations in many Arab and Western universities. He is also Editor-In-Chief of the “Mizan Attarjama,” a magazine published by the Tunisian National Center for Translation. He is a reviewer of several publications of the Center. He has a particular interest in the applications of Linguistics and Semiotics based on a number of master's dissertations he supervised and other research works he conducted in the context of sign language and translation. Among Dr. Al Soudani's publications are a book titled “The Foundations of Semantic thinking in the View of the Arabs: from Logical Imperative to Rhetorical Reasoning" (2017), “Arabic Reception of Saussurean Linguistics” (2019), “Nuclear Meaning in Arabic Lexicology: Introductions to the Microscopic History of Language” (2023). Dr. Al Soudani served as a linguistic expert on the Doha Arabic Language Historical Dictionary Project from 2014 to 2018 and was a visiting professor at the Doha Institute of Graduate Studies from 2018 to 2020. He was awarded the ALESCO-Sharjah Prize for Linguistics in 2018 (First rank).
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Dr. Suhad Daher-Nashif, Assistant Professor of Medical Sociology, Keele University, United Kingdom
Email: suhadh@hotmail.com
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8767-4619
SCOPUS author ID: 55699838500
Dr. Suhad Daher-Nashif holds a second title in Health Sciences, Ph.D. in Sociology and Anthropology. She is a medical anthropologist who focuses her research on dismantling the intersectionality between medical sciences, society, politics, and bureaucracy within healthcare practices in the MENA. Her main research fields are medical education, forensic medicine, and mental health. She worked in several academic and research institutions in the Middle East, most notably the College of Medicine at Qatar University. Currently, she is working as a lecturer in the Sociology of Health in the School of Medicine at Keele University-UK. Dr. Suhad Daher-Nashif established and developed multiple social and behavioral sciences courses and curricula in health professions educational programs, including medicine, dentistry, and public health. She is an active author and reviewer in many International refereed academic journals -Q1 journals- and a member of several scientific committees of international and local conferences on health and health education.
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Dr. Eid Mohamed, Assistant Professor of American and Cultural Studies, Qatar University, Qatar
Email: e.mohamed@qu.edu.qa
Dr. Eid Mohamed, is an Assistant Professor of American and Cultural Studies at the Department of English Literature and Linguistics at Qatar University College of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Mohamed's work is at the crossroads of several research areas including US-Middle East studies; and literary, media, and cultural studies. His recent publications include a sole-authored book on the role of Egyptian cultural and literary producers in mediating critiques of the US power and how one can historicize/track the Egyptian responses to the management, hopes and despairs of the Obama presidency and the Arab Spring (Arab Occidentalism, I.B. Tauris, 2015; and a new paperback edition in 2017), a co-edited volume about the 2011 Egyptian uprising and its aftermath (Egypt Beyond Tahrir Square, Indiana University Press, 2016), and a co-edited collection titled “Arab Spring: Modernity, Identity, and Change” (Palgrave, 2019). He has published several articles in academic journals, including New Media and Society, International Journal of Cultural Studies, Arabic Literature, Refugee Studies, and Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees.
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Editorial Secretariat
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Dr. Abdelaziz Elkhal, Research Assistant in Political and Social Philosophy, Ibn Khaldon Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Qatar University
Bio: Dr. Abdelaziz El Khal is an Assistant Researcher in Political and Social Philosophy at the Ibn Khaldon Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Qatar University. He holds a Ph.D. in Political and Social Philosophy from Ibn Tofail University, Morocco. His research focuses on political and social philosophy, justice and injustice, social inequalities, epistemology, and interdisciplinary approaches to knowledge production in the humanities and social sciences. He has participated in the organization of several international academic conferences and seminars and is the author of The Idea of Transitional Justice. He has also contributed to collective scholarly publications, including Revisiting the Khaldonian Model, and has published a number of articles in peer-reviewed academic journals. His current research interests include contemporary political philosophy, social justice, epistemology, interdisciplinarity, and knowledge production in the humanities and social sciences.
ORCID:0000-0001-9222-931X
SCOPUS Author ID: 59198669700
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Ms. Maryam Melhim, Research Assistant in Psychology, Ibn Khaldon Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Qatar University
Bio: Maryam Melhim has been a Research Assistant in Psychology at the Ibn Khaldon Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Qatar University, since 2023. She holds an MSc in Research Methods in Psychology from the University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom, and a BA in Psychology from Qatar University. Her research interests focus on social psychology, social and family relationships, behavior, health, and psychological well-being, with a particular interest in applying quantitative and qualitative methods to contemporary social issues in Qatari and Gulf societies. She has contributed to several interdisciplinary research projects.
ORCID:0009-0004-6166-2726