The World Yearbook of Education 2010: Education and the Arab 'World': Political Projects, Struggles, and Geometries of Power opens up discussions about improving the relationship between the Arab World and the West, beyond the divide of most current approaches.

1. Editorial introduction: Situating the world of Arab education: Critical engagements, André E. Mazawi & Ronald G. Sultana Section A: Contested Policyscapes 2. Privatizing education in the Maghreb: a path for a two-tiered education system, Abdeljalil Akkari 3. TVET reforms in the Arab region: The ‘push’ and ‘pull’ in policy development, Borhène Chakroun & Eva Jimeno Sicilia 4. The contested terrain of educational reform in Egypt, Fatma Sayed 5. Pressure groups, education policy and curriculum development in Lebanon: a policy maker’s retrospective and introspective standpoint, Nemer Frayha Section B: Re-calling Voices 6. Education and ethnography: insiders, outsiders and gatekeepers, Linda Herrera 7. Performing patriotism: rituals and moral authority in a Jordanian high school, Fida Adely 8. ‘To Educate an Iraqi-Jew’ or: What can we learn from Hebrew autobiographies about Arab Nationalism and the Iraqi education system (1921-1952)? Orit Bashkin 9. Doing ‘identity work’ in teacher education: The case of a UAE teacher, Matthew Clarke Section C: Suspended Visibilities 10. The human right to education in Arab countries: an international law perspective, Sawsan Zaher 11. Inclusive education and children with disabilities in the Gulf Cooperation Council member states, Sara Ashencaen Crabtree & Richard Williams 12. The teaching of Amazigh in France and in Morocco: language and citizenship between pedagogy and power politics, Abdelouahad Mabrour & Khalil Mgharfaoui 13. Educational provision and spatial dis-[o]rientation among pastoralist communities in the Middle East and North Africa, Steven C. Dinero 14. Citizenship, difference and the schooling of Muslim children in Malta, Louise Chircop Section D: Knowledge Imaginaries 15. Nationalism, Islamic Political Activism, and Religious Education in the Arab Region, Rukhsana Zia 16. Going international: the politics of educational reform in Egypt, Iman Farag 17. Higher Education and Differentiation Based on Knowledge: Algeria’s Aborted Dream, Hocine Khelfaoui 18. Arab youth, education and satellite broadcasting, Imad Karam Section E: Geopolitical Predicaments 19. American dreams of reinventing the ‘Orient’: ‘digital democracy’ and Arab youth cultures in a regional perspective, Omar El-Khairy 20. Palestinians, education, and the Israeli ‘Industry of Fear’, Nadera Shalhoub- Kevorkian 21. War, state collapse and the predicament of education in Iraq, Nabil Al-Tikriti 22. Representations of Arabs in Iranian elementary school text books, Golnar Mehran

"What is really exciting about this, the 2010 World Yearbook of Education, is not what it discusses or, indeed, what it leaves out, but how the discussions are framed."Professor Terri Seddon, Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia