This is a short article by the New Yorker but it explains that the culture has started to change in Egypt. This culture has changed by this new generation expressing themselves through music, theater, art, political cartoons and especially graffiti.
This article shows and explains a number of street artists views, murals, political cartoons and internet memes. This is one of the newer articles I have read because the backlash is centered mainly on Sisi and not Mubarek or the art from 2011 and Tahrir square.
majority of refugees are women and, especially, children; of the 200,000 refugees in Turkish camps, about 60% are children.
t was left to him to find tents, wooden flooring, carpets and paving bricks, desks, chairs, drawing boards, teaching aids and, of course, textbooks
urkish Red Crescent
acquired through AFAD channels a
egging
he result
ten large tents with floors
drawing boards
electricity
computer projectors.
limate control consisted of large fans
he pre-school director in Islahiye Camp used empty office and storage space in the warehouse to house five rooms full of loud young children
preschools enjoyed the largest proportion of age-group participation.
camp schools are administered by Turks
curricula are not recognised or sanctioned by the Turkish education authorities, and so licenced Turkish teachers cannot be assigned to them.
amp education directors rely heavily on volunteers from among the refugees themselves
time and instruction with the children is often inconsistent
not be able to teach in Arabic
There is little incentive for parents to commit their children to learning a new language
Closely related to the issue of language is the curriculum
eenage students in the camps generally do not have access to the secondary schooling
Indeed, one source of tension between Syrian parents and the Turkish authorities has been the Syrian demand for special classes for advanced students whose preparations for university entrance exams were interrupted by the war.
Syrian schools have opened outside of the camps with funding from the local government,
using the Syrian curriculum and books salvaged from Syrian schools and reproduced
Gaziantep
namely Syrian demands for the separation of the sexes in classrooms
Syrian parents also tend to insist that their daughters wear headscarves (hijab) in public and in schools, while it is illegal for Turkish teenage girls to cover their hair at school.
Tensions over the separation of the sexes, curriculum and language of instruction are compounded by the politics of Syrians refugee status
y contrast, the Turkish government chose not to officially recognise the Syrians as refugees as defined by UNHCR, and did not ask UNHCR to register the newcomers as refugees.
officially designate Syrians as refugees would limit Turkeys involvement in the Syrian civil war,
Turkey has allowed arms and non-lethal aid through its territory to supply the Free Syrian Army
here are also concerns that Syrians, desperate for income, take jobs at lower wages than Turks
Even guests can outstay their welcome, and with no end in sight to the civil war and no prospect of a return of Syrians to Syria, Turks are beginning to question how long they can sustain their assistance. I
une 2013 AFAD began accepting offers of financial and other aid from outside agencies, including UNHCR and the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).
The schools developed in Syrian refugee camps in Turkey provide valuable models for establishing schools for rapidly growing refugee populations.
The next critical challenge for Syrian education in Turkey is what to do with the growing number of Syrian teenagers who need to finish their high-school studies at accredited schools in order to compete for places at universities in Turkey or elsewhere.
This was probably the most interesting article I have read about education in the MIddle East. It is from the "Humanitarian practice Network". This article is about Turkey and the Syrian refugees, who are not documented as refugees, and the growing desire for improvements to education. Right now, the education which is in place for Syrians is adequate for a temporary stay of preserving knowledge. It is not designed to be used long term, to advance students, or to prep them for universities. This article looks at those issues and tensions which are happening currently in Turkey