With unprecedented access to three Damascus schools, this two-part series signals a growing openness within the Arab world as it examines an educational system in the throes of modernization. Stories focusing on students and their school administrators give a human face to places of learning that are striving to reconcile tradition with progress, religion with secularism, and antiquity with modernity. Produced by the Open University. Portions in Arabic with English subtitles. 2-part series, 59-60 minutes each.
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