Acknowledgements
Colin Brock & Lila Zia Levers. Introduction
Barbara Freyer Stowasser. The Qur'an and Women's Education: patriarchal interpretations of Sura 4:34 and their unreading by educated Muslim women
Serra Kirdar. The Impact of Educational Empowerment on Women in the Arab World
Sally Findlow. Women, Higher Education and Social Transformation in the Arab Gulf
Andre Elias Mazawi. Besieging the King's Tower? En/Gendering Academic Opportunities in the Gulf Arab States
Golnar Mehran. Religious Education of Muslim and Non-Muslim Schoolchildren in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Iran Mohammadi-Heuboeck. Aspects of Bilingualism in Iranian Kurdish Schoolchildren
Yossi Dahan & Yossi Yonah. Israel's Education System: equality of opportunity - from nation building to neo-liberalism
Richard Ratcliffe. The Moment of Education: the politics of education among the Negev Bedouin, Israel
Bilal Fouad Barakat. The Struggle for Palestinian National Education Past and Present
Abdelkader Ezzaki. Formal Schooling in Morocco: the hopes and challenges of the current educational reform
Ayse Kok. Computerising Turkey's Schools
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