1st Edition

Teaching and Researching Interculturality in the Middle East and North Africa

Edited By Hamza R'boul Copyright 2025
252 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

252 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

252 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Focusing on the emerging intercultural encounters in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), this book brings together diverse perspectives from the region to explore understandings and practices of interculturality in different educational environments. Teaching and researching interculturality has received increasing attention from scholars and educators alike in the Middle East and North... Read more

Chapter 1. Introduction

Hamza R’boul

Part 1. Identity and Linguistic Citizenship

Chapter 2. Embracing the “Pluriversal” through Linguistic Citizenship: Algerian EFL Teachers’ Didactic Engagement with the Instructional Materials and its Implications for Teaching for Global Citizenship

Fadhila Hadjeris

Chapter 3. Pre-Service English Teachers’ Imagined Communities in Türkiye: Exploring Intersections of Intercultural Communication and National Identity

Sedat Akayoğlu and Babürhan Üzüm

Part 2. (Cross)(Inter)cultural Competence

Chapter 4. Cross-Cultural Communicative Competence and Critical Thinking Skills in Oman: From Perceptions to Conceptualization for Curriculum Development

Silvio Sergio Saleem Scatolini and Holi Ibrahim Holi Ali

Chapter 5. Unlocking the Power of Intercultural Awareness and Competence: Experiential Activities for Tertiary Level Students in the Gulf

Lana Hiasat and Christine Coombe

Part 3. Interculturality in Language Education

Chapter 6. A Critical Pedagogy Perspective on Interculturality in Morocco: TESOL Textbooks

Abdelhadi Fouad and Brahim Hiba

Chapter 7. The Intercultural Dimension in the Tunisian Educational Discourse: The Tunisian Education Act and English Language Programs as a Case Study

Asma Moalla and Nadia Abid

Chapter 8. Intercultural Language Learning and Teaching in the Turkish Context

Nur Gedik Bal

Chapter 9. Intercultural Awareness in the Academic English Classroom at a Saudi University: An Investigation into Teachers’ Perspectives and Practices

Eshraq Allehaby, Oksana Razoumova and Nataša Ciabatti

Part 4. Epistemology and Navigating Interculturality

Chapter 10. Intercultural Communication between Arab Instructors and their “Cultural Other” Students: An Epistemological-Ontological Cultural Discourse

Ahmad Samarji, Muna Amr and Feras Hamza

Chapter 11. Situated Orientations to Interculturality in Video-Mediated Virtual Exchange Interactions

Zeynep Önder and Ufuk Balaman

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).