Teachers as State-Builders: Education and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Hilary Falb Kalisman, "Teachers as State-Builders: Education and the Making of the Modern Middle East"
English | ISBN: 0691204330 | 2022 | 288 pages | PDF | 10 MB
English | ISBN: 0691204330 | 2022 | 288 pages | PDF | 10 MB
The little-known history of public school teachers across the Arab world―and how they wielded an unlikely influence over the modern Middle East
Today, 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,
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