07.22.2008 3:53 pm

Multiple choice exams, the Saudi way

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

At the Washington Post, Anne Applebaum discusses last week’s Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom report on Saudi textbooks. The report also provides a glimpse into the multiple choice tests given to Saudi school children based on those textbooks.

A fourth-grade Saudi textbook titled…

Tags: Christianity, Islam, Islamic Saudi Academy, Judaism, religion, religious schools, Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism

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07.10.2008 1:13 pm

Be careful what you translate

By Alex Mayer

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The UK blog Harry’s Place is being sued by Hamas — or at least Hamas’ British sister organization, the British Muslim Initiative — for translating into English a story on al-Jazeera’s Arabic-language website.

Considering I myself recently translated a story from al-Jazeera and…

Tags: al-jazeera, arabic, Hamas, Israel, Judaism, media, racism

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