Preface:
Victor Billeh

Executive Summary

Part One: Case Studies

Chapter One: Educational Reform within the contexts of conspiracy fear and the absence of participation, study on the impact of developmental foreign aid on reform of educational policy in Egypt in the Nineties
Fatma El-Zahraa Hassan Sayed
Chapter Two: Reform of General Education, Case Study on Lebanese Curricula Reform
Adnan El-Amine & Murad Jurdak
Chapter Three: Educational Reform in Qatar
Amina Kamal
Chapter Four: Educational Reform in Kuwait
Qassem Al- Sarraf
Chapter Five: Educational Reform in Tunisia (1991-2002)
Mohamed Benfatma
Chapter Six: Morocco Experience on Reform of Educational Sector during the period of alternation (1998-2000)
Abdullah Saaf
Chapter Seven: The De-concentration, The Decentralization and Independence of Educational Institutions (1981-2003): From Renewal of Equality Methods to Network Administration
Jean-Louis Derouet
Chapter Eight: Educational Reform in Hong Kong and Malaysia
Mohammad Bassam Sukariyah

Part Two: General Papers

Chapter Nine: Educational Reform between Conceptions and Implementation
Ahmad Sidawi

Chapter Ten: Dualities and Entries in Educational Reform Issues
Munir Bashshur
Chapter Eleven: The Educational Reform Needed in the Arab World: Retrieving the four Excluded Prerequisites for Emerging Minds
Mohammad Jawad Ridha

Part Three

Chapter Twelve: The Dynamism of Educational Reform in Arab Countries - A Synthesis Paper
Adnan El-Amine