A Conversation With Safwan M. Masri: Religion and Education Reform
An ambassador for an Ivy League institution in Jordan talks about how Western universities seek to engage with the Arab world.
A Conversation With a Literary Translation Team
Two academics who collaborate on translations of Arabic literature into English talk about the joys and difficulties of their work.
A Conversation With the New President of Menoufia University
Moawaad Mohammed Al Kholi talks about some of the higher-education issues in the news, and other important ones that are not.
A Conversation with Ayoub Kazim: Dubai as an Education Destination
The managing director of the company that hosts what may be the world’s largest number of branch campuses talks about the history and future of the educational model.
A Conversation With the New AUC Provost: Rebuilding the Basics
Mahmoud El-Gamal talks about how he hopes to strengthen the core of liberal arts education at the American University in Cairo.
A Conversation with Farouk El-Baz: Finding Water in the Desert
One of Egypt’s leading scientists talks about his hopes for farming in the Sahara and the possible resurgence of scientific Pan-Arabism.
A Conversation With Morocco’s “Pushiest” University President
Morocco has a need for applied-science research, said Ibn Zohr University’s president.
Lessons from Finland: A Conversation with Pasi Sahlberg
A Finnish education expert with experience in the Arab world suggests a less elitist and test-centric approach to education.
A Conversation with the Iraqi Minister of Higher Education
Iraq’s security problems are not preventing it from establishing new universities and ending “mandatory ignorance,” said the Iraqi higher-education minister.
A Conversation With the Head of the Higher Arab Institute of Translation
Arabic should be the main teaching language in the region but needs to be modernized, says Inam Bioud.
