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Teaching Interculturally in Qatar Local Ethics, Communication and Pedagogies

Edited By Wisam Kh. Abdul-Jabbar Copyright 2025
    252 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    This book focuses on intercultural communication in Qatar, exploring local epistemologies and ethical practices that influence pedagogical methods for school and university curricula.

    This book provides an in-depth look at intercultural education in primary and secondary schools, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate programs in various schools, departments, and colleges in Qatar. It suggests effective cross-cultural pedagogies for intercultural exchange in the Qatari context and details how to develop intercultural competencies and dialogical models. The book also explores how intercultural encounters are manifested in Qatari culture through verbal or non-verbal forms of communication, personal space, cultural identity, media, access perspectives, and language learning. The volume includes both insider and diaspora perspectives and addresses a wide range of contentious issues such as communication with minority groups, the possibilities of global citizenship, intercultural and interfaith dialogues, the internationalization of education, and the role of the intercultural translator. It aims to promote learning skills that enable and diversify effective participation in social reform, knowledge dissemination, conviviality and citizenship.

    The title will serve as a valuable reference for international education and intercultural communication and teaching, especially in the context of Qatar.

    Part One: Navigating Cultural and Educational Ethics in Qatar

    1.  Negotiating Intercultural Education in Qatar: Cultural Identity, Education City and the National Vision

    Wisam Kh. Abdul-Jabbar

    2. Beyond Education City: Exploring the Impact of Branch Campuses on the Qatari Culture

    Mashail M. AL-Naimi

    Part Two: Approaching Culture and Religion in Higher Education

    3. Interreligious Teaching and “The Problem of God”: Religious Implications of a Liberal Arts Education in Qatar

    Patrick Laude

    4.Honing Intercultural Competence at Lusail University: Teaching Culture in a Teacher Education Program in Qatar.

    Rim Chakraoui

    Part Three: Fostering Cultural Identity in Qatar’s International Schools

    5.Designing a Curriculum that Promotes National Identity and Cultural Heritage in Qatar’s International Schools

    Hiba Harb and Murielle El Hajj

    6.International Schools in Qatar: Balancing Global Education and Preserving Cultural Identities

    Mohammed Adly Gamal

    Part Four: Engaging Intercultural Communication in Diverse Contexts

    7.Translanguaging for High Stakes Intercultural Clinical Communication in Multilingual Qatar: Health Professions Education and Patient Safety Where English is a Medical Lingua Franca

    M. Gregory Tweedie, Mariam Khanum, Robert C. Johnson, and Meagan LaRiviere

    8.Communicating Al-Andalus Discourse Interculturally in the Semiotic Landscape of Qatar

    Irene Theodoropoulou and Julieta Alós

    Part Five: Promoting Intercultural Competencies in School Settings

    9.An Intercultural Rihla in Canadian Education: Teaching English Literature in an International High School in Qatar

    Sumia Alkaisi

    10.Integrating Intercultural Adaptability and Citizenship Education into the Qatari Primary School Curriculum: The Mondial as Extra-Curricular Activity

    Aisha Abdulla Al-Enazi

    Part Six: Exploring Media and Access Perspectives in Education

    11.McArabism in Al Jazeera’s 2022 World Cup Coverage: A Pedagogical Model for History Education in Qatar

    Hisham M. Ali

    12.Interculturality and Access: Reflections from a Community-Based Project in a Higher Education Course in Qatar

    Maria Jimenez-Andres and Ghanimeh El-Taweel

    Part Seven: Intercultural Perspectives in Translation and Language Teaching

    13.Integrating Qatari Arabic Nonverbal Communication and Gestures into FL Curriculum

    Muntasir F. Al-Hamad

    14.Exploring the Challenges of Teaching Translation in Qatar: An Intercultural and Linguistic Perspective

    Mahmoud Alhirthani

    Biography

    Wisam Kh. Abdul-Jabbar is currently a visiting professor at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar. His research considers how intercultural communication resonates with educational practices and explores the convergences of seemingly differing cultures to infuse intercultural dialogue into educational discourse. He is the author of Medieval Muslim Philosophers and Intercultural Communication: Towards a Dialogical Paradigm in Education (Routledge, 2022).

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