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Tarek Abu Hussein – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study explores significant aspects of the history of Islamic higher education in the central Ottoman lands (Bilad al-Rum) and Greater Syria (Bilad al-Sham) during the approximate period 1530-1650. Two general themes constitute the greatest part of our focus. The first is an examination of the divergent approaches to pedagogy in each…
Descriptors: Islam, Religious Education, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
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Al Jayyousi-Alsalim G. F.; Alsayed Hassan D.; Khaled S. M.; Zolezzi M.; O'Hara L.; Daher-Nashif S.; Alhaija E. S.; Kane T.; Al-Wattary N.; Abidia R. F.; Al Hadeethi T. T. A.; Abdul Rahim H. F.; Morris L. D. – SAGE Open, 2024
Academic life in the present era is subject to several occupational stressors, including increased workloads, reduced research funding, tenuous career paths, and family-work conflicts. Such stressors affect academics' quality of life, wellbeing, and job satisfaction, and women are particularly vulnerable. There is, however, a dearth of information…
Descriptors: Social Influences, Cultural Influences, Well Being, Females
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Al Azmeh, Zeina; Dillabough, Joanne; Fimyar, Olena; McLaughlin, Colleen; Abdullateef, Shaher; Aloklah, Wissam Aldien; Mamo, Adnan Rashid; Abdulhafiz, Abdul Hafiz; Al Abdullah, Samir; Al Husien, Yasser; Al Mohamad Al Ibrahim, Ammar; Al Ibrahim, Ziad; Barmu, Taiseer; Farzat, Abdulnasser; Kadan, Bakry – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2021
This paper examines the relationship between the politics of Higher Education access pertaining to longstanding practices of patrimonial authoritarian politics and the narration of collective trauma. Building on an empirical study of Syrian HE during war, we suggest that a "narrative disjuncture" within HEIs has a damaging impact not…
Descriptors: Trauma, Access to Education, Higher Education, Politics of Education
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Eristi, Bahadir – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2019
This research aims to examine behavioral reactions that victims display against cyberbullying through a crosscultural comparison standpoint. The research data have been collected from 161 participants from different countries such as Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Syria; and all of them continue their undergraduate studies in Turkey. Some of the…
Descriptors: Victims, Bullying, Aggression, Cultural Differences
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Dirani, Khalil M.; Hamie, Christine Silva – European Journal of Training and Development, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of human resource development (HRD) education in Middle Eastern countries. In particular, the authors discuss the current state of HRD education, country readiness and challenges that hinder HRD progress in Middle Eastern countries. They argue that HRD programs need to prepare young…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Force Development, Professional Education, Qualitative Research
Abi-Mershed, Osama, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
"Trajectories of Education in the Arab World" gives a broad yet detailed historical and geographical overview of education in Arab countries. Drawing on pre-modern and modern educational concepts, systems, and practices in the Arab world, this book examines the impact of Western cultural influence, the opportunities for reform and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Arabs, Educational Change, Sustainability