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| Conference for reforming education in the Arab states |
| 2004-12-25 |
| Nine Arab research centers have launched an initiative for reforming education in the Arab states. The event was carried out in collaboration with a group of European and American research centers. Abdul Menem Saeed, the director of al-Ahram center for strategic studies, the side which assumes coordination among these centers, said by the end of the conference which lasted for two days that "cooperation between the Arab and foreign research centers aims at benefiting from international experiences in the field of democratic transformations." Saeed also stressed that the initiative includes several activities especially drafting reports and studies of modernization facing the reform process, monitoring steps taken by the Arab government on the way to reforms and providing alternatives and recommendations to the public opinion and decision-making. The conference was attended by several centers including King Faisal center for Islamic studies and research, the Arab Reforms Forum in Alexandria library, the Palestinian center for survey and political studies, the strategic studies center at the Jordanian University in Amman, the Lebanese studies center, the Sudanese studies center, the future and strategic studies center at Kuwait university and the social researches studies center in Rabat. |
| Posted by:Fred |