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Why Student Research Matters: A Graduate Student’S Perspective, Jessica L. Hensley

The Journal of Integrative Physiology

Research fundamentally changes how students engage with knowledge. Rather than memorizing established facts, students learn to question, analyze, and contribute to the body of knowledge within their field (1). This shift supports deeper understanding and promotes critical thinking skills by encouraging active construction of knowledge (1). It also exposes students to the process of engaging with scientific literature and integrating information within the context of their research (2).

In my experience, research requires individuals to confront uncertainty. Experiments do not always produce exact results, and methods can require modification. Through this process, students develop adaptability, persistence, and the ability to …

A Universe Gone Quickly, Willie Carver

Critical Humanities

A Universe Gone Quickly

Submitted: May 25, 2026

Accepted: June 1, 2026

Idiom, Marianne Worthington

Critical Humanities

Idiom

Submitted: May 26, 2026

Accepted: June 1, 2026

A Poet Bears Witness: An Interview With M. L. Williams On The Function Of Literary Studies In Troubled Times, Leah Toth, M. L. Williams

Critical Humanities

Dr. M. L. (Marty) Williams is a poet and professor of literature at Valdosta State University, a comprehensive university in south-central Georgia. He is the author of Game (What Books Press 2021), Other Medicines (Redbone Chapbooks 2008) and co-editor of How Much Earth: The Fresno Poets (Roundhouse Press 2001). The focus of the interview that follows is the future of literary studies in the modern neo-liberal university, a daunting topic in 2026, in the face of what many administrators refer to as the "right-sizing" of literature programs nationwide in both the U.S. and the U.K. Anybody paying attention to the …

Navigating Prose, Poetry And Criticism: An Interview With Nasir Abbas Nayyar On His Contribution To Urdu Literature And Literary Criticism, Nasir Abbas Nayyar, Inayat Ullah

Critical Humanities

Navigating Prose, Poetry and Criticism: An Interview with Nasir Abbas Nayyar on His Contribution to Urdu Literature and Literary Criticism 

Submitted: May 24, 2026

Accepted: June 1, 2026

An Interview With Mohammed Bennis, Mohammed Bennis, Amine Oudghiri-Otmani

Critical Humanities

An Interview with Mohammed Bennis

Submitted: April 4, 2026

Accepted: May 24, 2026

“Politics Are Downstream From Culture”: An Interview With Paul Lauter, Paul Lauter

Critical Humanities

“Politics are downstream from culture”: An Interview with Paul Lauter

Submitted: May 29, 2026

Accepted: June 1, 2026

Implementing 21st Century Skills In Quranic Education: A Case Study Of Sub-Saharan African Students Within Quranic Schools In The Souss Region Of Morocco, Ahmed Abaragh, Lahoussine Hamdoune

Critical Humanities

To help Sub-Saharan African students meet their needs in a globalized era, this article seeks to shed light on the essence of integrating or implementing 21st century skills into Quranic education within the Quranic schools in the Souss region of Morocco. The choice of southern Moroccan Quranic Schools, as the research area is due to its historically vibrant culture and the high-quality training provided by well-versed teachers and jurists. Based on the social ecology of human development theory with the use of a qualitative approach, the analysis highlights the prominent role of implementing critical thinking and problem-solving, communication and collaboration, …

The Possibility Of Post Binary Reflexivity: A Genealogy Of Binary Logic In Western Philosophy, Vaughan A. Bidois

Critical Humanities

This article traces a genealogy of binary logic within Western philosophy, from its origins in Platonic metaphysics through to its deconstruction in poststructuralist theory. Drawing on the genealogical methods of Friedrich Nietzsche and Michel Foucault, it critiques how oppositional structures, such as mind/body, reason/emotion, and truth/error, have persisted through shifting intellectual paradigms while shaping knowledge, power, and subjectivity. Structuralist and linguistic theories are examined for their role in reinforcing binary meaning-making, while poststructural critiques (notably Derrida and Foucault) are explored for their attempts to subvert such hierarchies. However, the article argues that these critiques remain paradoxically ensnared within the same …

Human Wisdom And Artificial Intelligence: Role Of Liberal Arts Education In A Neoliberal World, Purna Chandra Bhusal

Critical Humanities

Neoliberalism is an economic and political ideology that originated in the 1930s and 40s, gained momentum in the late 70s and 80s, and peaked in the 90s and 2000s. Since its inception, neoliberalism has promoted a free-market economy with minimal state intervention, granting individuals the freedom to compete and succeed. Since the last quarter of the twentieth century, the neoliberal system has invested in, incorporated, and promoted Artificial Intelligence (AI), valuing an AI-enhanced corporate ethos. As a result, the success of higher education is generally measured by the quantity of technologically sound, market-ready, AI-trained human capital it produces for industry. …

Why Literature Matters: Perpetrator Portrayal, Cultural Imaginaire And Poetry Of The Taliban, Inayat Ullah

Critical Humanities

The question of how perpetrators of violence are identified, represented and understood has become a central concern of Perpetrator Studies, an interdisciplinary field that emerged in the early twenty-first century. This article analyzes The Poetry of the Taliban in a bid to examine how the selected poems construct and negotiate multiple figurations of the perpetrator rather than presenting it as a singular or fixed category. While the poems frequently identify perpetrator through recognizable political, military and ideological structures, they also reveal the complexities involved in reducing the perpetrator to a clearly identifiable form or kind. In exploring these tensions, the …

Enhancing Access And Social Mobility: Metro State University's Liberal Arts Mission In Action, Kristen Lillvis, Kate Ries

Critical Humanities

This article examines how a liberal arts framework has guided Metropolitan State University’s responses to political, financial, and social pressures on higher education. Drawing on the university’s history as an access-oriented, urban institution, the authors present two case studies—the North Star Promise scholarship and emergency grant funding—to demonstrate how mission-driven investments in students’ basic needs advance social mobility and strengthen institutional sustainability. The authors argue that prioritizing student supports, including those available through short-term or contingent opportunities, yields long-term benefits for learners, their communities, and the university.

Submitted: April 13, 2026

Accepted: May 21, 2026

Literature Carries Philosophy’S Open Secret: On Derrida’S Reading Of Romeo And Juliet, Rajesh Sampath

Critical Humanities

This paper attempts a close reading of Derrida’s texts, particularly with a focus on his brief but significant reading of Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet in “Aphorism Countertime” (originally published in French in 1986). We compare this short work with his more sustained engagement with the philosophy of death in Aporias (1993), which itself is an attempted critique of Heidegger’s Being and Time (1927); the latter is, arguably, the most influential work of twentieth-century continental European philosophy, particularly on issues of time, death, and authentic life. The paper tries to show that a fruitful engagement between philosophy and …

Defending The Humanities: Introduction To The Special Issue On “Why The Humanities Matter”, Megan Hutchinson

Critical Humanities

Introduction to the Special Issue

Defending the Humanities: “why the Humanities Matter”

Endothelin-1 Drives Cox-2 And Prostaglandin E2 Expression In Osteoblasts Through Mapk/ Ap-1 Signaling During Periodontal Inflammation, I-Ta Lee

Articles in Press

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Evaluating The Impact Of Early Contractor Involvement On Enhancing The Performance Of Construction Projects In Egypt, Samah Saleh Abdelraof, Ayman Ahmed Ezzat Othman, Lamees Mostafa Ahmed

Mansoura Engineering Journal

The construction industry constitutes a critical pillar of Egypt’s national economic growth and sustainable development. Despite its strategic importance, the sector continues to face persistent challenges, including chronic cost overruns, schedule delays, and inadequate coordination among stakeholders. These inefficiencies are largely attributed to the dominance of the traditional Design–Bid–Build (DBB) system, which enforces a rigid separation between design and construction, fostering adversarial relationships and project disputes, which highlights the need for alternative procurement approaches. This research investigates the impact of Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) as a collaborative procurement alternative to enhance project performance. Case studies show that ECI improves early-stage …

From Principal To Behavioral Health Ceo: Lessons Schools Must Learn About Student Mental Health, Anthony S. Felder

Essays in Education

Schools across the United States are increasingly functioning as front-line mental health systems, often without adequate preparation, staffing, or clinical training. This essay draws on the author's lived experience as a former school principal, doctoral scholar in educational leadership, licensed clinical social worker, and current behavioral health chief executive officer to examine the intersection of K-12 education and youth mental health. Grounded in trauma-informed care, restorative practice, and family-centered systems of support, the essay presents five evidence-based lessons that school leaders must consider to meet students' evolving social-emotional needs. These lessons address the limitations of punitive discipline, the urgent need …

The Difficulties Of Property Development, A. Amrani

Revue Marocaine de Droit, d'Economie et de Gestion (Moroccan Journal of Law, Economics and Management)

This paper presents the difficulties encountered by the Compagnie Générale Immobilière (CGI) in the real estate sector. These challenges risk seriously compromising its mission to facilitate home ownership for low and middle-income groups. The nature and complexity of factors involved in property development are diverse: technical, land-related, financial, legislative, regulatory, and socio-economic. Housing prices are rising sharply and continuously while purchasing power evolves very slowly or stagnates. Housing affordability is increasingly out of reach for low and middle-income categories. This price increase is explained partly by the evolution of housing price components and partly by the requirements of local authorities …

Synthesis Report, Mohamed Naciri

Revue Marocaine de Droit, d'Economie et de Gestion (Moroccan Journal of Law, Economics and Management)

The author, a geographer, reflects on the dense two-day debate on the land system and its implications for planning and urbanism. Despite fearing he may not fully capture the richness of contributions—particularly from a legal perspective requiring precision—he notes a striking unanimity among all twenty-six speakers: the land system is fundamentally unsuited to Morocco's accelerating urbanization. This consensus reveals an inadequacy that has all the characteristics of a crisis—not merely of the legal system, but of the entire land system. While disagreement among scholars is traditionally seen as a blessing, this unanimity provokes less gratifying feelings. The finding is deeply …

The Effects Of Residential Lease Legislation And Its Judicial Practice On Investments In Rental Housing, O. Mounir

Revue Marocaine de Droit, d'Economie et de Gestion (Moroccan Journal of Law, Economics and Management)

The investor in rental housing seeks to generate returns on invested capital through rent while safeguarding the building as property. This investor fears for capital transformed into real estate assets placed in a tenant's hands, placing hopes in lease legislation to guarantee these assets and in courts to protect them whenever threatened. Thus emerges a purely economic relationship between lease legislation and its jurisprudence on one hand, and investment in rental housing on the other. This relationship can be either favorable or unfavorable to investment depending on legal guarantees and judicial practice. Good lease legislation combined with effective judicial practice …

The Role Of The Cdg Group In Property Development, Moha Ben Satti

Revue Marocaine de Droit, d'Economie et de Gestion (Moroccan Journal of Law, Economics and Management)

Since its creation in 1959, the CDG (Caisse de Dépôt et de Gestion) has continuously strengthened its intervention in the highly social real estate sector to contribute toward placing a significant number of decent housing units at reasonable prices on the market. This choice is justified by the nature of the Caisse's resources, primarily constituted from CNSS affiliate contributions and popular savings collected by CEN. After focusing its first fifteen years on establishing appropriate intervention instruments through generalized housing promotion, the CDG adopted a new orientation from 1975 onward, particularly from the 1980s, marked by massive housing programs for low-income …

Note On The Financing Of Housing Credit, M.L. Ben Otmane

Revue Marocaine de Droit, d'Economie et de Gestion (Moroccan Journal of Law, Economics and Management)

The causes of the housing crisis are numerous and interconnected: inadequate supply relative to demand, production system imbalances, growing urban populations, structural economic organization factors, and the shift from housing as use-value to housing as exhaustive commodity. Urban centers already concentrate nearly 45% of the population with a growth rate of 4.4%, while rural areas register only 0.1% (corrected from text: 4.1% likely a typo; logic suggests lower). Housing in Morocco is extremely expensive. Vertiginous increases in land costs for both individual and collective housing combine with unjustified rises in construction material prices. These increases are automatically passed on to …

Taxation And Property Development In Morocco, R. Lazrak

Revue Marocaine de Droit, d'Economie et de Gestion (Moroccan Journal of Law, Economics and Management)

Taxation reflects a country's socio-economic and political realities, but appropriately designed tax laws can also act upon these realities. Depending on its assigned qualitative and quantitative role, taxation can contribute to growth or recession in a sector of the national economy. Until the 1978 Finance Law, the real estate sector was primarily subject to a static tax—the urban tax—with mainly financial objectives. The 1978 Finance Law established a genuine real estate tax system through profound reform of the urban tax and creation of two new taxes: a tax on real estate capital gains and a tax on urban land (including …

Land Ownership And Land Market In Cities With Low Demographic Growth: The Example Of Asilah, A. Lehzam

Revue Marocaine de Droit, d'Economie et de Gestion (Moroccan Journal of Law, Economics and Management)

When discussing land speculation, rising land values, and their effect on housing costs and urban space organization, reference is typically made to large cities. The question arises whether existing discourse on large cities is reproducible in the analysis of land in small urban centers, or whether these small centers present particularities based on their regional location, history, and present or future economic potential. Theoretically, rising land values and the extent of real estate speculation depend on city size and population growth rate. Reliance on population parameters has become so evident that it obscures other equally important factors in shaping urban …

Land System And Clandestine Housing: The Case Of Tabriquet Nord In Salé, A Abouhani

Revue Marocaine de Droit, d'Economie et de Gestion (Moroccan Journal of Law, Economics and Management)

This article examines the legal ambiguity in Article 10 of the 1946 Dahir on apartment ownership. It questions whether the union manager's duty to preserve, maintain, clean, and repair common areas creates an overlap between the general assembly's decision-making authority and the manager's executive functions. While the assembly typically manages both routine and non-routine matters, the author argues that in exceptional cases, the manager may exercise both decision-making and executive powers under the initiative authority granted by the third paragraph of Article 10. This dual role raises two specific legal problems regarding the proper allocation of responsibilities.

Land System And Coastal Ecosystems: Between Land And Sea, The Tossed Littoral, Mohamed Ali Mekouar

Revue Marocaine de Droit, d'Economie et de Gestion (Moroccan Journal of Law, Economics and Management)

The concern for preserving environmental quality, a growing preoccupation worldwide, includes a distinctly spatial dimension among its multiple facets. Maintaining ecological balances depends largely on various modes of space occupation and their adequacy to specific environmental conditions. Neither the legal regime of land control, nor urban policy or property development, nor housing design or architectural style, are indifferent to the harmonious or chaotic shaping of the urban and rural environment where populations establish their living framework. The question of space management from an environmental protection perspective is therefore of considerable importance. The relationship between land status and environmental protection has …

Urban Planning And Land Development, Mouloud Belayachi

Revue Marocaine de Droit, d'Economie et de Gestion (Moroccan Journal of Law, Economics and Management)

Morocco, like other developing countries, continues to experience significant demographic growth with an average annual increase of 2.6% between 1971 and 1982. Urban growth is even stronger at 4.4% annually due to continuous migration. The urbanization rate rose from 29% in 1960 to 43% in 1982, representing 8.7 million urban inhabitants compared to 11.7 million rural inhabitants. The high growth rate of urban population between 1971 and 1982 will lead to a population volume two to three times current levels by the year 2000, despite accounting for progressive decreases in migration and natural growth rates. To satisfy the needs of …

Urban Evolution And Legal Stability: Immovable Property Law Put To The Test By Urbanization, Hervé Parcheminal

Revue Marocaine de Droit, d'Economie et de Gestion (Moroccan Journal of Law, Economics and Management)

The Moroccan landscape is rapidly transforming under the repeated assaults of galloping urbanization. This phenomenon, accelerated by socio-economic changes, has reached spectacular proportions as illustrated by the new faces of the Kingdom's major cities. Urban planners and architects are renewing and often disrupting the configuration of urban sites. Cities now extend both in surface area, gradually absorbing agricultural land, and in height, raising buildings ever higher. Faced with these transformations, the legal landscape is also evolving. Immovable property rights are shaken by an Administration that finds in urban planning and construction regulations indispensable instruments for a coherent urban policy. Territorial …

The Urban Planner And Legal Constraints Arising From The Land System, M'Hamed Motik

Revue Marocaine de Droit, d'Economie et de Gestion (Moroccan Journal of Law, Economics and Management)

Industrialization, demographic explosion, rural exodus, and changing lifestyles have resulted in intense urbanization of Moroccan cities and centers. This phenomenon has produced a housing crisis fueling rampant land speculation, driving up property prices for sale and rental, while also generating insalubrious neighborhoods surrounding major agglomerations. The urban planner faces inextricable problems, forced to fight on multiple fronts to provide humans with a living environment adapted to their nature. Urban planning aims to understand the urban phenomenon as a whole, remedy its ills, and rationally activate its future. The fundamental question is whether Morocco's land system allows the urban planner to …

Powers Of The National Land Agency In Land, Urban Planning, And Development Matters, Mohamed Adnane

Revue Marocaine de Droit, d'Economie et de Gestion (Moroccan Journal of Law, Economics and Management)

The National Land Agency's powers are defined by Prime Ministerial Circular No. 338/C of August 26, 1982. Its responsibilities include collecting, preserving, and disseminating information on unbuilt land belonging to the State (public and private domains), public habous, Guich lands, and local and ethnic communities located within urban perimeters and peripheral zones. The Agency also establishes orientation plans for municipalities, autonomous centers, delimited centers, and their peripheral zones in collaboration with the Ministry of the Interior through a preparatory commission chaired by the Agency. Additionally, it participates in various interministerial commissions on urban, industrial, tourism, and land development, and collaborates …