Arab Perspective Research Articles

Tawfiq al-Hakim: a reader's guide

- Chronology. - Tawfiq al-Hakim's Lives. - Novels of Everyday Life. - Novels of the Mind. - Plays of Everyday Life. - Plays of the Mind. - Short Stories. - Essays. - Arab Perspectives on Tawfiq al-Hakim. - Al-Hakim's Islamic Feminism. - Al-Hakim's Theology. - Annotated Bibliography of Tawfiq al-Hakim's Works. - General Bibliography. - Index.

The Near and Middle East - M. Mahdi Alosh: Learner, text and context in foreign language acquisition: an Arabic perspective. (Pathways to Advanced Skills, Vol. IV.) ix, 403 pp. Columbus: The Ohio State University National Foreign Language Resource Center, 1997.

The Near and Middle East - M. Mahdi Alosh: Learner, text and context in foreign language acquisition: an Arabic perspective. (Pathways to Advanced Skills, Vol. IV.) ix, 403 pp. Columbus: The Ohio State University National Foreign Language Resource Center, 1997. - Volume 63 Issue 1

Arab Perspective about the Application of Information Technology in Science Education.

This paper discusses influences and concerns of the application of information technology (IT) in the Arab World. The paper argues that IT can influence the four elements of curriculum. Goals that are related to higher order thinking and problem solving abilities will gain much significance, while goals that are related to lower order thinking will gain much less significance. Science education goals will have to contain a goal that indicates the importance of preparing scientifically and technologically literate citizens. Content will have to match changes in goals. Rather than enforcing heavy content, more emphasis will be given to IT skills as well as to integrating technology in the science laboratory. Pedagogy will be more student-centered. Students will be held responsible for their own learning. Assessment will be facilitated by technology, where both process and content will be equally important. This paper discusses several concerns that are related to the application of IT in science education in the Arab World. Some of these concerns are: ignorance of incorporating the positive aspects of the Arab culture; Arab World view; language difficulties; high cost of IT hardware and software; and the use of IT to find information rather than make meaning (education). This paper recommends that successful implementation of IT in science education is a major professional challenge to Arab science educators. To meet this challenge effectively in science education, both of its promises and our concerns should be taken into consideration.

Avoiding the Obvious: Arab Perspectives on US Hegemony in the Middle East

Avoiding the Obvious: Arab Perspectives on US Hegemony in the Middle East

The End of the Palestine Mandate

British Imperialism and the end of the Palestine mandate, Wm. Roger Louis the president versus the diplomats, Peter Grose the Soviet role in the emergence of Israel, Oles M. Smolansky the Zionist perspective, Michael J. Cohen the Arab perspective, Walid Khalidi historical overview, J.C. Hurewitz historiographical essay, Robert W. Stookey chronology contributors.

Participation in Schooling: Determinants and Learning Outcomes in Nepal

This paper examines the determinants of adult cognitive competencies and of child school participation in the Terai region of Nepal. Data on three generations from 795 rural farm households were analyzed. The results of the analysis are: 1) First generation (grandparent) landholdings, literacy and caste status were significant determinants of second generation "innate ability" as measured by the "Ravens Progressive Matrices" (RPM) test. 2) RPM was a significant determinant of second generation schooling. 3) Second generation schooling was a significant determinant of second generation literacy, numeracy, reading comprehension and attitudinal modernity. 4) Attitudinal modernity was a significant determinant of attitude toward school for all households, but not for the subset of households in villages for which school availability data had been obtained. 5) In these latter villages, there was no relationship between school availability and a positive attitude toward school. 6) Third generation child school participation was determined jointly by second generation landholdings, caste, schooling and numeracy, and attitudinal modernity, and the child's sex. 7) Girls were significantly less likely to have completed at least one year of school than were boys. 8) The presence of small children in the household only slightly decreased girls' chances to participate in school. 9) School availability had no tffect on child school participation.

Reaction and revolution in the Middle East: Arab perspectives

The excerpts that follow are taken from addresses given to the Annual Convention of Arab-American University Graduates, held in Chicago, 17-19 October 1975. The contributors are Mohammed Hassanein Heikal, the former chief editor of Al-Ahram and confidant of President Nasser; Dr Munif Razzaz, who is a founding member and long-time leader of the Ba'ath Socialist Party; A. Yusuf, a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine; Abdalla Al-Ashtal, Ambassador of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen to the United Nations.

The Arab-Israeli Confrontation of June, 1967: An Arab Perspective. Edited by Ibrahim Abu-Lughod. (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1969. Pp. 201. $6.95.)

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Where do you Really Come From?: Arab and Arab-American Women Break Silences

For scholars and students located, as is this reviewer, in places with erratic (or no) postal service, inadequate library budgets, and other problems of access and isolation, MIT's Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies (EJMES), a multidisciplinary journal launched in 2001, is welcome in its highly accessible form — but also in its innovative, and critical content. Its encouragement of work by young scholars, including graduate students, is particularly appealing.“Gender, Nation and Belonging: Arab and American Feminist Perspectives”, edited by Rabab Abdulhadi, Nadine Naber and Evelyn Alsultany (Summer 2006, Volume 5), is the most ambitious (as well as the longest) offering to date and has the signal virtue of being both analytically rich and a pleasure to read, including poetry, memoirs and interviews, as well as more academic interventions.