The 48th issue of Tabayyun has been published by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. This issue includes the following articles: "Deliberative Democracy According to Habermas: Between the Demand for Consensus and the Reality of Civil Disobedience" by Belgacem Krissaane; "The Concept of Total Institution According to Erving Goffman: Power, Mortification, and Resistance" by Farouk Tahri; " The State of Exception and the Homo Sacer According to Giorgio Agamben" by Mohamed Hedi Omri; "Truth or Hope: Philosophy, Literature, and the Value of Irony in Richard Rorty's Neo–Pragmatism" by Taoufik Faizi; "Andalusian Nostalgia: Its Archaeology and Ego in the Mirror of its Past" by Mounir Kchaou; and "On Conspiracy Theory" by Mekki Saadallah; "Giambattista Vico and Event Hermeneutics" by Ahmed Daboubi; and "On Conspiracy Theory" by Mekki Saadallah.
Michael Medhat Youssef provides the issue with a translation of Margaret Canovan's "On Being Economical with the Truth: Some Liberal Reflections". This edition also contains Tarek Azizeh's review of The Populist Century: History, Theory, Critique by Azmi Bishara, and Ghazwan Arslan's review of The Poverty of Theory: Interrogating Cultural Studies by Wahid Ben Bouaziz.
