Knowledge Production in the Arab World: The Impossible Promise Hanafi Sari
Knowledge Production in the Arab World: The Impossible Promise Hanafi Sari Over recent decades we have witnessed the globalization of research. Arab countries have strived to join this globalized…
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Knowledge Production in the Arab World: The Impossible Promise Hanafi Sari
Over recent decades we have witnessed the globalization of research. Arab countries have strived to join this globalized world and become a 'knowledge economy, ' yet little time has been invested in the region's fragmented scientific institutions; institutions that should provide opportunities for individuals to step out on the global stage.Knowledge Production in the Arab World investigates research practices in the Arab world, using multiple case studies from the region with particular focus on Lebanon and Jordan. However, this has yet to translate into a worldwide scientific network, across which competencies and resources can flow freely.
The book critically assesses the It depicts the Janus-like face of Arab research, poised between the negative and the positive and faced with two potentially opposing strands; local relevance alongside its internationalization.