Higher Education and Contestation in the State of Kuwait After the Arab Spring
In 2014, the American University of Kuwait (AUK) celebrated its ten-year anniversary with fanfare (AUK Commemoration, 2014). AUK hails its journey a success story. The numbers certainly support AUK’s claim. AUK has increased its student body population th
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Education and the Arab Spring Resistance, Reform, and Democracy
Foreword by Bessma Momani
Edited by Eid Mohamed Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar University of Guelph, Canada Hannah R. Gerber Sam Houston State University, USA and Slimane Aboulkacem Sam Houston State University, USA
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To my father Ahmed Abdelwahab Mohamed who passed away a couple of years ago. He taught me the value of education. – Eid To Selma and Mostafa, youth who have unknowingly encouraged me to think through the shifting norms of education and democracy in the Egyptian context. – Hannah To my father’s soul, Messaoud Aboulkacem, and my beloved mother, Khedidja. They believe good education can better the world. They have always inspired me to value education and strive to spread it. – Slimane
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword Bessma Momani
ix
Prefacexi Acknowledgmentsxiii Chapter Abstracts
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Education, Democracy, and the Arab Spring: An Introduction Slimane Aboulkacem, Hannah R. Gerber and Eid Mohamed
xix
Section One: Classroom Issues and Teacher Professional Development Struggles Post-Arab Spring 1. Teaching for Democracy in Post-Arab Spring: Challenges & Opportunities Abdullah F. Alrebh and Radhi Al-Mabuk 2. Arab Spring and Teacher Professional Development in Egypt: A Case Study Nahed Abdelrahman and Beverly J. Irby
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Section Two: Youth Education and the Seeds of Social Change 3. Democracy as Student Mobilization: How Student Unions Struggle for Change in Egypt Ahmed Abd Rabou
51
4. Vulnerability of the Tunisian Education System: A Pendulum Swing between Reality and Hope Fadwa Bouguerra and Slimane Aboulkacem
69
5. Youth & Revolution: A Call to Reform Higher Education in Yemen Waleed F. Mahdi and Abdulghani A. Al-Hattami
83
Section Three: Ideologies, Religion, and Education after the Arab Spring 6. Higher Education and Contestation in the State of Kuwait after the Arab Spring: Identity Construction & Ideologies of Domination in the American University of Kuwait Bader Mousa Al-Saif and Haneen Shafeeq Ghabra
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7. Non-Muslim Students and Religious Education in Egyptian Classrooms Hyun Jeong Ha
115
8. Al-Azhar: The Challenge of Reforming Religious Education in
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