The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies have published issue 49 of the peer-reviewed journal Tabayyun: Philosophical Studies and Critical Theories. This issue includes a special section on the role and contributions of legal philosophy in contemporary global and Arab thought, featuring the following studies: "Legal Positivism and the Relativity of Values: Rights and Justice between Hans Kelsen and Norberto Bobbio" by Nabil Fazio; "To What Extent Is It Permissible to Incorporate Social Values into Legal Legislation?" by Azelarabe Lahkim Bennani; "The Principle of Sovereignty: Territory, Authority and Decision" by Bencherki Benmeziane; "Legitimacy and Legality between Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, and Ethics" by Magdi Abdel Hafez Saleh; and "On the Hegelian Reconciliation Between Freedom and Law" by Ibtissam Barraj.

Additionally, the issue includes two studies: "The Connotations of the Barrier, Wall, and Boundaries in Palestinian Narrative" by Hosni Mlitat and "A Critique of Alterity, or Emmanuel Levinas's Otherness in Crisis" by Rachid Nfinif.

In the Translations section, Michael Medhat Youssef translated Sergio Cotta's article "Positive Law and Natural Law". The Book Reviews section includes two reviews: of Laurent de Sutter's Deleuze's Philosophy of Law, reviewed by Nadera Khoja; and of Gian Giacomo Fusco's Form of Life: Agamben and the Destitution of Rules, reviewed by Shady Kassho.

The Book Preciś section features four previews of recent publications by the Arab Center, prepared by the editorial board of Tabayyun: first, Azmi Bishara's The Arab State: A Study of Origin and Trajectory; second, the collective volume Islam, Christianity, and Democracy: Comparative Studies East and West, edited by Mounir Kchaou; third, Paul May's Philosophies of Cultural Pluralism; and fourth, Mark Mitchell's The Limits of Liberalism: Tradition, Individualism, and the Crisis of Freedom.