Knowledge Production in Higher Education

‘This book addresses one of the key questions of our time – how research on the MENA and Europe has been influenced by the differing perspectives of educational traditions in a range of countries. The scholars brought together here elucidate the importance of not only bringing but also understanding diverse perspectives that emanate from the systems of training in Europe and the MENA, making clear that this impacts both the questions we ask and the hypotheses we consider. A must-read for scholars as they reflect on their own positionality and those of others in the field.’ Michael Robbins, Project Director, Arab Barometer ‘In this insightful volume, the editors and their co-authors critically highlight what readers already think they know about “Orient-al” or “Occident-al” knowledge production in higher education. The result offers intelligent interventions that point out what students – and sometimes also faculty – do not actually know about knowledge reproduction of the “other”. This is a timely thought-provoking treatise!’ Larbi Sadiki, Professor of Arab democratization, University of Qatar ‘While a growing literature focuses on knowledge production and higher education in and on the Middle East, this timely volume is unique for considering the Middle East and Europe together. It explores the deeply political and expressly dialogic relationships that have produced fields, paradigms and perspectives, while eschewing unilinear genealogies and histories and focusing not only on epistemologies but crucially also on pedagogies.’ Seteney Shami, Founding Director, Arab Council for the Social Sciences -- .