Teachers as State-Builders: Education and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Kalisman Hilary Falb)
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…
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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 public school teachers were considered among the elite strata of society. 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. 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.
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