Research & Publications: Culture and Society

This essay describes the Dollar-a-Day educational scholarship and discusses its goals in third-world Muslim countries.

The authors discuss the precarious role of foreign workers living in the United Arab Emirates who do not benefit from state-sponsored education.

The authors discuss the history of female education in Lebanon and how women have used their education to rise to prominent ranks in business, economic, and government fields.

This article discusses the shift in the Middle East from teacher-centered classroom styles toward a learner-centered pedagogy.

An examination of male and female access to post-secondary education in Egypt, and the recognition of a level of structural inequality in the Egyptian education system.

In this essay, Zeena Zakharia argues that language policy in education can exacerbate vulnerabilities, particularly for students from under-served populations.

An examination of the the substantial increase in women's education in the Arab world, though acknowledgement that such developments are connected to country-specific contextual frameworks.

Ghali and McClure analyze the youth bulge plaguing Lebanon's job market and rampant unemployment among college graduates.