Saudi change

ISLAM IN A NEW WORLD: New Saudi Arabia university will have a Western feel, By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, July 13, 2008

Such is the nature of Saudi accommodation of globalization over time. For jobs to work, they must be competitive, and to be competitive, they must accept a degree of modernity (e.g., coed).

So the cost of stabilization is jobs is education is coed is change.

(Thanks: jarrod myrick)

Comments

[Selil]

My former boss has recently become the Chancellor of Abu Dhabi University, and another colleague is leaving this semester. Last year I was interviewed extensively in regards to using virtualization to allow for coed courses to be taught in the middle east. Yet the students would be in different locations.

[Michael]

The only women-only colleges I know of are places like Wellesley and Bryn Mawr. Are those typical of such institutions? I ask because, if they are, then the King might be doing the conservatives a favor by asking for coed:)

[PRCalDude]

The Arabs haven't changed in thousands of years. They're sitting on a mountain of oil wealth and are exporting jihad with it. Sooner or later, the terrorists they've bought off will come back to haunt them.