Author Archive for: James M. Dorsey

About James M. Dorsey -- BESA

Dr. James M. Dorsey, a non-resident Senior Associate at the BESA Center, is a senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University and co-director of the University of Würzburg’s Institute for Fan Culture.

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Through Education Middle East Powers Vie to Shape the Next Generation of Muslims

August 13, 2021 in Blog, Frontpage /by James M. Dorsey -- BESA

Education is emerging as a major flashpoint in competing visions of a future Muslim world. Rival concepts being instilled in the next generation are likely to shape what amounts to a battle for the soul of Islam. Reports published earlier this year by the Israel-based Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education […]

Turkish, Not Saudi, Schoolbooks Under Scrutiny

April 28, 2021 in Blog, Frontpage /by James M. Dorsey -- BESA

In a sign of the times, Turkish schoolbooks have replaced Saudi texts as the focus of criticism of supremacist and intolerant curricula in the Muslim world. According to a recently released analysis of 28 Turkish textbooks, that country’s education system, which was once a model of secularism that taught evolution, cultural openness, tolerance toward minorities, […]