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Going to School in Algeria

The latest installment in the New York Times’ “Generation Faithful” series features a story about education in Algeria, a country where in recent decades the struggle between fundamentalist (and at times extremist) Islam and more modern and secular emphases has been acute.  Michael Slackman writes, “Now the government is urgently trying to re-engineer Algerian identity, changing the curriculum to wrest momentum from the Islamists, provide its youth with more employable skills, and combat the terrorism it fears schools have inadvertently encouraged.”

Michael Slackman, “In Algeria, A Tug of War for Young Minds,” The New York Times, June 23, 2008, A1

Posted by Ted Thornton on Friday, June 27, 2008, at 9:39 am. Filed under Algeria, Arab World, Education, Islam, Islam and Politics, Islam and the West. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. You can post a comment or trackback from your blog.

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