Studies

​​​​​​This article examines the impact of sustained exposure to the rhetoric and practices of US President Donald Trump’s administration on public moral values and ethical norms, in the United States and elsewhere, distinguishing between amoral politics and the justification of immoral political discourse and conduct. Adopting a critical analytical approach, it explores how the relentless disregard for the truth, power politics (might is right), exploitation of power for personal and partisan gain, contempt for the law, and embrace of racism can normalize political behaviour that once warranted accountability. It discusses the limits of political satire as a response or a purely utilitarian critique of such practices absent an independent moral critique. The study concludes that over time the discourse and practices of the current administration may dull the public’s moral sensibility and erode the standards that govern the exercise of power and accountability.​​

I The Criminalization and Charge of Genocide in International Law

International law, as we know it today, did not exist in the early modern period.

Besides political and ideological conflicts, the savagery of war and mass killing inspires several existential reflections.

Azmi Bishara's Introduction to the Arabic Edition of Zygmunt Bauman's Modernity and the Holocaust, translated by Hajjaj Abu Jabr and Dina Ramadan and published by the Arab Center for Research and P

Full Text of Azmi Bishara's Keynote Lecture “Democratic Transition and its Problems: Theoretical Lessons from Arab Experiences” Given at the College de France, Paris, 28 November 2019.

Although this article generally acknowledges the priority of internal factors, it discusses the conditions for bringing back the external factor in certain cases, especially after the collapse of a

Complete text of an address delivered in an abbreviated form as the keynote opening the Social Sciences and Humanities Conference on Research Methodologies, held at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies in Doha, Qatar, 22 - 24 March. Translated by Michael Scott

L’antisionisme est-il «une des formes modernes de l’antisémitisme»?

The intimate relationship between religion and the state in Israel, as compared to other modern societies, stems from the total mutual identification between the religious and national affiliations in Zionist thought.

Egypt's January 25 protests did not start as a revolution but as an angry popular movement against the practices of the Egyptian security agencies. These are the same masses that are claimed to have joined a new revolution: the June 30 Revolution.