Hunger of the world

Opening: The global economic system that forms the fabric of international supply chains for various goods, services, and products, providing food security for the peoples of the earth, has today, according to reports and economic experts, become threatened by a disruption that could lead to disasters hitting humanity at its core existential security, which is food. Despite the robustness of the global fabric regarding the trade exchange of food products between continents and countries of the world and its continuous development with human progress in general, it can be said that this context has reproduced the theory of classes, between a producing class and a consuming class, making consuming entities at risk of supply interruption under any circumstance, and thus the idea of providing food security for those entities becomes void. Meanwhile, producing entities may control the fate of peoples by imposing political agendas, interests, and balances, but the food security of all peoples of the earth must be viewed as an existential issue that rises above political tricks and power struggles. In the Arab framework, studies supported by reality point to the natural resources owned by Arab countries, in terms of their capacity for food production, but the question of why these resources have not been activated and invested remains unspoken. Perhaps the questions about the fragmentation that has afflicted the Arab body in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Sudan, Libya, and others partly point to the idea of keeping the Arab countries' resources dormant, disabled, unactivated, or unexploited. The current reality at this stage regarding the food crisis, whose signs have begun in most countries of the world due to the Russian-Ukrainian war and their major international alliances, as well as the effects and economic, financial, and productive disturbances caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, despite the bleakness of such a pessimistic outlook, a careful reading of pivotal human issues necessitates discussion that opens doors to solutions, reads the manifestations, and examines the results. This issue features: Taha Hussein and the Saudi citizen, Jitangali, winner of the Booker, and the debate over the intertwined knowledge.