Samira Alayan is Lecturer at the David Yellin College of Education, Jerusalem. Since 2006 she has been a Research Fellow at the Georg-Eckert-Institute for International Textbook Research, Germany. Her research focuses on education in conflict zones, especially in Israel/Palestine, including East Jerusalem, and on education reforms in the Arab Middle East.

• List of MapsList of TablesIntroductionAchim Rohde and Samira AlayanChapter 1. Educational Reform in the Arab World: Directives, Mechanisms, and Challenges in Lebanon, Syria, and OmanNemer Mansur FrayhaChapter 2. Education Reform in Oman: Evolution of Secondary School CurriculaSalha Abdullah IssanChapter 3. Educational Developments in Jordan from the 1950s until Today: Stages and CharacteristicsMohammad Khalil AbbasChapter 4. Major Trends of Educational Reform in EgyptIman FaragChapter 5. On the Impossibility of Teaching History in Lebanon: Notes on a Textbook ControversyMassoud DaherChapter 6. History Textbooks in Egyptian Schools: A Tool for the Representation of Collective MemoryAtef BotrosChapter 7. Different Layers of Identity in Lebanese TextbooksJonathan KrienerChapter 8. The Philosophical Foundations of Education and the Range of its Implications for the Content of Civic Education Textbooks in JordanMustafa Abu al-Sheikh and Yasser al-KhalailahChapter 9. Gender Images in Jordanian Textbooks in the Subject Field of Social EducationNaseema al-KhalidiChapter 10. Images of Europeans in Jordanian TextbooksQasem al-NewashiChapter 11. History Curricula and Textbooks in Palestine: Between Nation Building and Quality EducationSamira AlayanChapter 12. Bridging Conflicts through History Education? A Case Study from Israel/PalestineAchim RohdeNotes on ContributorsIndex

“The essays are very high quality, written by well-qualified researchers, and address a subject of high interest to those concerned with development/political issues related to the Middle East. They…make a significant contribution to the field of educational reform and development, identity construction and nation building.”  ·  Eleanor Doumato, Watson Institute, Brown University“This volume will prove a valuable contribution for scholars and policymakers interested in educational policy, curricular reform, historiography, and Arab World identities.”  ·  Nabil Al-Tikriti, University of Mary Washington