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Rethinking Higher Education for Syrian Refugees in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey
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Fincham, Kathleen – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2020
Within the Middle East and North Africa region, more than 5,600,000 Syrian refugees are currently registered with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) as seen here https://www.unhcr.org/. Amongst university-aged refugees, only a small fraction (Jordan -- 8%, Lebanon -- 6%, Turkey -- 1%) are currently enrolled in higher education. This paper, based on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Access to Education, Higher Education
Educational Attainment and Egalitarian Attitudes toward Women in the MENA Region: Insights from the Arab Barometer
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Auletto, Amy; Kim, Taeyeon; Marias, Rachel – Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2017
Despite increasingly egalitarian attitudes toward women in the Middle East and North Africa, nations in this region continue to rank among the lowest in measures of gender equality. Using survey data, we examine the relationship between educational attainment and support for women. We find that increased educational attainment is predictive of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Bias, Females, Social Bias
Lebanese Youth Narratives: A Bleak Post-War Landscape
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Khalaf, Roseanne Saad – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2014
To identify the themes that define the lives of a generation living in a conflict-ridden post-war society, I explore the changing views of Lebanese students through an analysis of the personal narrative texts that they created during my creative writing workshops over a 16-year period (1997-2012). Increasingly, young Lebanese feel trapped in a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Youth Problems, Personal Narratives, Conflict
A Cross-Cultural Examination of the Impact of Social, Organisational and Individual Factors on Educational Technology Acceptance between British and Lebanese University Students
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Tarhini, Ali; Hone, Kate; Liu, Xiaohui – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2015
This paper examines the social, organisational and individual factors that may affect students' acceptance of e-learning systems in higher education in a cross-cultural context. A questionnaire was developed based on an extended technology acceptance model (TAM). A total sample of 1173 university students from two private universities in Lebanon…
Descriptors: Social Influences, Student Characteristics, Technology Integration, Electronic Learning
Educational Attainment and Attitudes towards War in Muslim Countries Contemplating War: The Cases of Jordan, Lebanon, Pakistan, and Turkey
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Shafiq, M. Najeeb; Ross, Karen – Online Submission, 2009
This study addresses the little understood relationship between educational attainment and public attitudes towards war in four predominantly Muslim countries contemplating war: Jordan, Lebanon, Pakistan, and Turkey. The multivariate analysis using public opinion data suggests that the educational attainment of respondents has no statistically…
Descriptors: Muslims, Educational Attainment, Multivariate Analysis, Foreign Countries
Education, Income and Support for Suicide Bombings: Evidence from Six Muslim Countries
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Shafiq, M. Najeeb; Sinno, Abdulkader H. – Online Submission, 2009
We examine the effect of educational attainment and income on support for suicide bombing among Muslim publics in six predominantly Muslim countries that have experienced suicide bombings: Indonesia, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Pakistan, and Turkey. We make two contributions. First, we present a conceptual model, which has been lacking in the…
Descriptors: Muslims, Income, Educational Attainment, Suicide