Teachers as State-Builders: Education and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Kalisman Hilary Falb)
The little-known history of public school teachers across the Arab world--and how they wielded an unlikely influence over the modern Middle EastToday, it is hard to imagine a time and place when…
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The little-known history of public school teachers across the Arab world--and how they wielded an unlikely influence over the modern Middle EastToday, it is hard to imagine a time and place when public school teachers were considered among the elite strata of society. But in the lands controlled by the Ottomans, and then by the British in the early and mid-twentieth century, teachers were key players in government and leading formulators of ideologies. Drawing on archival research and oral histories, Teachers as State-Builders brings to light educators' outsized role in shaping the politics of the modern Middle East.Hilary Falb Kalisman tells the story of the few young Arab men--and fewer young Arab women--who were lucky enough to teach public school in the territories that became Iraq, Jordan, and Palestine/Israel. Crossing Ottoman provincial and, later,
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