The ACRPS and the Doha Institute have published the 25th issue of the biannual peer-reviewed journal Ostour for Historical Studies. This issue includes a special selection dedicated to women's history and includes the following studies: “The Social Status of Women in Medieval Morocco (11th-14th Centuries)" by Latifa El Bouhsini; “Omanis and the Resistance to Colonialism: The Dialectic of Erasure and Historiography (1868-1975)" by Said Sultan Al Hashimi; “A Quiet Revolution: Girls' Education in Late Ottoman Syria (1880-1918)" by Fares Atasi; “Egyptian Feminism: A History of Struggle and Negotiation" by Hoda Elsadda; “Social Modernization Policies in Tunisia Before and After Independence: Interests and Challenge", by Slaheddine Ben Frej; “The Missing Founding Father: Religious and Cultural Shifts in the Construction of Kuwait's National Narrative" by Abdulrahman Alebrahim; and “Women's History Put to the Test of Reflexivity and Ethics: The Case of Moroccan Marxist-Leninist Women Activists", by Walid Cherqaoui.
The issue also features Hanane Sekkat's translation of “Women's History and Pioneering Women Historians in 19th and Early 20th Century France", by Isabelle Ernot. Ostour 25 also features Faouzi Boukhriss and Abdellah Herhar's review of Women of the Desert by Mohammed Dahman; Yahya Boulahy's review of Women's Rights in Contemporary Morocco between Islamic and International Frameworks: A Community Dialogue on the Plan for Integrating Women into Development and the Family Code by Brahim El Kadiri Boutchich; Fatima Guechi's review of Islamic Feminism and the Discourse of Post-Liberation: The Cultural Turn in Algeria by Marnia Lazreg; and Ahmed Sàeed Riziq's review of The Historiography and Memory of the Crusades in the Modern Arab World by Amar S. Baadj and Ahmed M. Sheir (eds.).
