1st Edition
Teaching Interculturally in Qatar Local Ethics, Communication and Pedagogies
Part I: 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 II: 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 III: 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 IV: 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 V: 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 VI: 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 VII: 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).
