1st Edition

Intercultural Communication Education and Research in the Middle East and North Africa

Edited By Hamza R'boul Copyright 2025
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

This edited volume gathers insights into the production of knowledge about interculturality in education and research in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The MENA region is seen in this book as a space with unique circumstances, conditions and complexities that need to be thoroughly explored and further unpacked. The book defines intercultural communication education and research... Read more

1. Introduction  Part 1: Gender and Feminism in Intercultural Communication Education  2. Empowering Voices and Building Bridges: The Intersection of Feminist Critical Pedagogy and Intercultural Communication in Moroccan Higher Education  3. Empowering Voices: Nurturing Gender Equity through Intercultural Communication Education in the Arab World  Part 2: Critical Perspectives on Intercultural Communication  4. “We are Algerians...We are Muslims!”: EFL Educators’ Perceptions of Interculturality in the Algerian Context  5. (Re)locating Türkiye’s Intercultural Stance through Juxtaposing Non-Western and Western Perspectives  6. Reconceptualizing Intercultural Communication Research for the MENA: A Rereading of the Social Construction of Reality  7. Promoting Translanguaging in the ESL Classroom: A Closer Look into Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates  Part 3: Diversity and Diaspora in Interculturality  8. The Role of Host Environment in the Development of Host Communication Competence among Tunisian Study Abroad Students  9. Analysis of Culturally Responsive Differentiated Instruction Practices at the Diaspora ESL/EFL Context: The Inner World of the Immigrant Child by Cristina Igoa (1995) as a Case study  10. Exploring Teachers' Attitudes toward Refugee Students in High Schools in Türkiye  11. Arabic Medium Education Policy and Intercultural Learning

Biography

Hamza R’boul is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of International Education at the Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. His research interests include intercultural education, (higher) education in the Global South, decolonial endeavors in education, cultural politics of language teaching and postcoloniality. His books with Routledge also include Intercultural Communication Education and Research: Reenvisioning Fundamental Notions (Routledge, 2023, with Dervin), and Postcolonial Challenges to Theory and Practice in ELT and TESOL: Geopolitics of Knowledge and Epistemologies of the South (Routledge, 2023).