Teaching EFL Writing in the 21st Century Arab World addresses a range of issues related to researching and teaching EFL writing in different countries in the Arab World including Egypt, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Tunisia, UAE and Yemen. Both theoretically and practically grounded, chapters within discuss the different contexts in which EFL writing is taught, from primary school to university. Th…
Part I: Political socialization and its processes -- 1. Introduction to Palestinian youth journaling project -- 2. Reconceptualizing youth political socialization: a theoretical framework -- 3. Community contribution to political socialization: the global is local -- 4. Social Identifiers: making meaning of intersectionality -- 5. Geopolitics of religion and its role in youth agency -- 6. Limit…
Higher Education Exchange between America and the Middle East through the Twentieth Century reveals the inspirations behind post-war initiatives such as AMIDEAST and the Fulbright Program and their impacts on education exchange. Brawner discusses enrollments by country and the factors that influenced education exchange through the end of the twentieth century. Included throughout are stories of…
Following a brief review of the historical background, Higher Education Exchange between America and the Middle East in the Twenty-First Century continues the higher education story with the events of 9/11. It describes the changes in US immigration policy and the implementation of student tracking systems, and their subsequent impact on Middle Eastern enrollments in US colleges and universitie…
1. Introduction -- 2. Theories of Migrancy and Media -- 3. Memory -- 4. Race -- 5. Green Movement -- 6. Conclusion.This book explores how the children of Iranian immigrants in the US utilize the internet and develop digital identities. Taking Los Angeles—the long-time media and cultural center of Iranian diaspora—as its ethnographic field site, it investigates how various web platforms are …