• Foreword / Ellen Fleischmann
• Introduction / Julia Hauser, Christine B. Lindner, Esther Möller
• Experiencing education through architecture and urban space
• Impressions of new England on the Ras Beirut Landscape, 1870-1920 / Maria Bashshur Abunnasr
• Local and western educational institutions in Beirut : topographical and symbolic dominations / Michael F. Davie
• Avènement d'une architecture scolaire moderne aux messages ambigus : Beyrouth, 1825-1900 / May Davie
• Gendering a modern education
• Perception de l'éducation à Beyrouth d'après la pensée écrite de la fin du XIX... siècle / Magda Nammour
• Al-nahdạh al-nisā'iyyah : Musāhamāt al-mu'assassāt al-tarbawiyyah al-thaqāfiyyah (namūda̲ǧ madrasat zahrat al-ihṣān) / Jamīla Qūstī
• Mothers of a future generation : the journey of an argument for female education / Julia Hauser
• Language, religion, and identity
• Lyon to Liban : language, nation, and faith in the Jesuit Schools of Ottoman Lebanon / Edward A. Falk
• Martyrs de la foi catholique, combattants de l'Église romaine : les héros du théâtre de l'Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth (1875-1914) / Chantal Verdeil
• The russian schools in Beirut at the end of the 19th Century / Souad Abou el-Rousse Slim
• Madāris al-maqāsịd al-islāmiyyah fī Bayrūt : Al-lughah wa-l-dīn wa-l-huwiyyah / 'Abd al-Latị̄f Fakhūri
• "The students speak back"
• Educational encounters between american protestant missionaries and the residents of late Ottoman Syria : one path towards a modern education / Christine B. Lindner
• Esther Azharī Mūyāl (1873-1948) : aspects of a modern education in Bilād al-Shām / Marilène Karam
• "We do not learn for school, but for life" : alumni associations at french schools in Lebanon in the 1930s and 1940s as privileged spaces of sociability / Esther Möller
• Index.

"In this picture book, a young girl and her family are forced to flee their village to escape the civil war that has engulfed Syria and make their way toward freedom in Europe"-- Provided by publisher.

Teacher's Survival Guide: Gifted Education covers topics essential to gifted education teachers, including tips and strategies for recognizing and identifying giftedness, encouraging creativity, and providing the multiple opportunities and resources gifted kids need.

This book is designed to assist administrators in designing, conducting, and reporting on an in-house evaluation of their gifted programs. Written with the busy administrator in mind, this handbook includes a clear, step-by-step process for evaluating each of the main elements of gifted programs as well as reproducible worksheets, surveys, and resources to facilitate a thorough evaluation grounded in best practices in gifted education.

"Today is the festival of Eid. The sighting of the new moon starts a day of celebration for Samira and her family. The Ramadan fast is over and now it is time for prayers and presents. But who is the surprise visitor with a story to tell?" p. 4 cover

Education has always been an important pursuit in Islam. The Prophet Muhammad enjoined his followers to 'seek knowledge, even unto China.' Within the religion, educational theory and practice were founded on the work of itinerant teachers who taught the fundamental tenets of the faith in exchange for lodging and other services; Qur'anic schools where masters of the Qur'an tutored pupils; and centers of higher learning in Baghdad, Damascus, Alexandria, and elsewhere, where Islamic theology and jurisprudence were developed and taught. In this volume, Bradley J. Cook, with assistance from Fathi H. Malkawi, has drawn together and introduced selections from the writings of eminent Islamic thinkers on the subject of Islamic educational efforts, presenting the original Arabic texts alongside their annotated English translations.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780842527637 20160605

A visit with Grandmother in the Middle East is always special for Yasmin, but this time it is even more so in this picture book about faith and family.On her first night visiting her grandmother, Yasmin is wakened by the muezzin at the nearby mosque calling the faithful to prayer. She watches from her bed as her grandmother prepares to pray. During her stay, Yasmin's grandmother makes her prayer clothes, buys her a prayer rug, and teaches her the five prayers that Muslims perform over the course of a day. When it's time for Yasmin to board a plane and return home, her grandmother gives her a present. When Yasmin opens the present when she gets home, she discovers a prayer clock in the shape of a mosque, with an alarm that sounds like a muezzin calling the faithful to prayer.Maha Addasi's warm and endearing story, richly illustrated by Ned Gannon, is the recipient of an Arab American Book Award, Honor Book. Featuring text both in English and Arabic, this is a perfect title for children learning more about Middle Eastern cultures and language.School Library Journal says: "A beautifully woven tale of grandparent affection and spiritual development."Booklist says: "An affectionate, intergenerational story.".
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781590786116 20180521

Enter the imaginary world of a little girl playing with her mother's hijaab. With a swirl of the hijaab, she is at once a brave warrior queen, an adventurous nomad in the desert, a beautiful bride, or inside a Bedouin tent.

• Introduction and summary of findings
• Theoretical perspectives : state formation and education
• The paradoxes of Palestinian state formation : undertaking state-building while still leading resistance
• Political rent and Palestinian development
• The colonial legacy : inadequate funding, deficient materials, weak instruction, inappropriate curriculum
• The institutionalization of education under the PA
• The Palestinian curriculum : the struggle over/for identity.

This book examines the role of education in building a new Palestinian state, and especially on the role and function of the education system in the process of state formation. Since education frames a people's identity, the nature of the education system affects how Palestinians relate to their state. Through education the Palestinian Authority (PA) transforms the parameters of identity to serve the requirements of state-building and the peace process. International assistance to the PA affects all of these processes through the disbursal of political rent, whose primary function is to bolster the PA and to keep the peace process going. The new Palestinian Authority has assumed two seemingly contradictory functions: state building and resistance, and the dynamic tensions between the two raise key questions for political and policy analysis. Are these functions mutually exclusive or complementary in the context of the ongoing peace negotiations, and state-building? Can the Palestinian leadership transform the Palestinian national movement from a revolutionary organization to a pragmatic state apparatus? Are the PLO and the PA interchangeable? What type of power does the PA need to cultivate the support, or to secure the compliance, of the Palestinian people for the state-building project? Clearly, the answers to these questions have a direct bearing on the education system. Will this system promote a resistance identity or a state-building legitimizing identity.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781847185686 20190129