Mounir Farah Interviewed About Saudi Educational Issues, Speaks at Iraqi Conference
Posted on 5/5/2009
Mounir Farah, University of Arkansas professor of curriculum and instruction, was interviewed last weekend by Channel 2 in Saudi Arabia. The 45-minute interview conducted by phone concerned curriculum development in Saudi Arabia and options for students at various levels of performance and abilities. 
Farah, who began educational consulting in the Middle East in 1993, has directed a World Bank project writing history, geography and civics textbooks and teachers’ guides for the Jordanian Ministry of Education and has also done extensive research on education in Saudi Arabia and Syria. He has authored and edited several textbooks, teachers’ guides and reference materials on world civilizations, world cultures and economics.
A senior Fulbright Scholar in the Middle East in 2004-05, Farah also recently was an invited speaker and panelist at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, where he spoke at the “Iraqi Academic Conference to Help Improve and Sustain Higher Education in Iraq.” He talked about how to help in reforming curriculum and teaching methodologies at Iraqi universities and about the importance of coordination between the institutions of higher education, the ministry of education and teachers in the field. More than 300 professionals from the United States and Iraq attended the conference.
Farah joined the University of Arkansas and College of Education and Health Professions faculty in 1995.
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