As the academic year gets underway around the world, many parents in Lebanon are still uncertain if their children will go to school. Teachers’ strikes last year closed most public schools and kept half a million children out of school. “I have one boy and I put him in a public school. I am honoured to put him in a public school. Firstly,
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While SAT-7 KIDS’ live children’s shows took a break over the summer, the channel made sure to stay connected with its audience through a series of challenges that invited young viewers to make and send videos. Every two weeks from late August, SAT-7 KIDS released challenges that encouraged children to share their views about particular topics. The
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My School, SAT-7’s pioneering program to provide high-quality complementary education in the Arab world, has wrapped up its fifth and final season. Since the program launched in 2015 in response to the war in Syria, SAT-7 has made over 400 episodes covering the region’s curriculum in the core subjects of mathematics, Arabic, English, science, and French. At a time when 13 million children in the Arab world were out of school because of conflict 1, My School’s goal was
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My School, SAT-7’s pioneering project to provide five years of high-quality primary education in the Arab world, has now wrapped up its fifth and final season. Since the program was launched in 2015 in response to the war in Syria, SAT-7 has made over 400 episodes covering the region’s curriculum in the core subjects of
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As we explore the top issues facing the Middle East, it is important to note that generalizations about the region do not work! The countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are as different to each other as the countries of Europe. So, this brief overview needs to be read in the light
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“In the last two years, so many things have changed. Life in Afghanistan is very difficult now – there is no education, no work, and all our suffering is because of those two things. There is a lot of anxiety. If [women] go out they are inappropriately questioned.” August 15, 2023 marks two years since
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