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Research Update Reveals Lack of Change in Saudi Curriculum
July, 2008 (pdf, 668 kb)

The Saudi Arabian school curriculum has recently been at the eye of a media storm due to the controversy surrounding the Islamic Saudi Academy in Virginia, and the pledge made by the Saudi government in 2006 to remove texts promoting intolerance, hatred and extremism from its curriculum by the beginning of the 2008-2009 school year. In July, IMPACT-SE completed an update on its 2003 report on the Saudi curriculum. Its findings are striking: Significant progress has yet to be made, in stark contrast with the Arabian kingdom’s effort to present itself as a leading moderate power in the Middle East and the proponent of the 2002 Arab peace initiative.

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Highlights

 
IMPACT-SE's Report on Palestinian Textbooks Receives Worldwide Coverage
June 3, 2008
IMPACT-SE's Director of Research Dr. Arnon Groiss presented the concluding analysis of the seven-year Palestinian schoolbook publication project, "Palestinian Textbooks: From Arafat to Abbas and Hamas" (pdf, 693 kb) at Jerusalem’s Media Central, to journalists of the international press and Israeli and Palestinian peace activists. The briefing was covered by the Associated Press and reported by over 120 media outlets worldwide.		    

Other Recent Updates


The Real Problem with Palestinian and Israeli Schoolbooks: A Response to IPCRI's Statement of March 23, 2008
April 2008
The Israel-Palestine Center for Research and Information (IPCRI) lately issued a statement claiming that the main problem regarding the Palestinian and Israeli schoolbooks "is the almost total lack of any reference in each side's text books to the other side. Israelis and Palestinians learn almost nothing about each other. This intentional lack of reference is an indication of the fact that both sides have yet to come to terms with the political and national existence of the other." This statement is factually incorrect since both the Palestinian and the Israeli textbooks do actually refer to each other. The real problem is in which terms.
Discussion Panel on "Iranian Textbooks: Preparing Iran’s Children for Global Jihad"
Hudson Institute, Washington, DC, March 10, 2008
As debates rage about Iran’s nuclear intentions, educational textbooks may serve as one of the more candid guides for discerning this regime’s worldview and ideology. IMPACT-SE researchers, Arnon Groiss and Shayan Arya, covered the Iranian report’s detailed findings and discussed the implications for the United States and the rest of the international community.
Supporting document: PowerPoint Presentation (pdf, 1.23 mb)