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In this, the latest in a series of BBC / Open University co-productions looking at international schools and education systems, Syrian School looks at four schools in Damascus. They may be in the s...ame city, but they're each very different. In the first episode we meet Mrs Amal Hassan, the larger than life head teacher of Zaki al-Arsuzi Girls' School, intent on teaching her girls to stick up for themselves and 'be free'. She has a new girl at school; Du'aa comes from a devout Muslim family. Until now she's been educated at a conservative Islamic school, but this term she's moved to the more liberal Zaki al-Arsuzi School. How will she get on with the big ideas of her new head teacher? Across town at Jaramana School, Yusif is football mad. He's an Iraqi refugee who lived through the bombs of Baghdad. Now in the relative calm of Syria, he must start to overcome his deep-seated fear of loud bangs.
In this, the latest in a series of BBC / Open University co-productions looking at international schools and education systems, Syrian School looks at four schools in Damascus. They may be in the s...ame city, but they're each very different. In the first episode we meet Mrs Amal Hassan, the larger than life head teacher of Zaki al-Arsuzi Girls' School, intent on teaching her girls to stick up for themselves and 'be free'. She has a new girl at school; Du'aa comes from a devout Muslim family. Until now she's been educated at a conservative Islamic school, but this term she's moved to the more liberal Zaki al-Arsuzi School. How will she get on with the big ideas of her new head teacher? Across town at Jaramana School, Yusif is football mad. He's an Iraqi refugee who lived through the bombs of Baghdad. Now in the relative calm of Syria, he must start to overcome his deep-seated fear of loud bangs.
| Series: | Syrian school |
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| First transmission date: | 10-02-2010 |
| Original broadcast channel: | BBC4 |
| Published: | 2010 |
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| Duration: | 00:58:58 |
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| Director: | Max Baring |
| Producer: | Emma De'ath |
| Narrator: | Khalid Abdulla |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Link to related site: | Website: http://www.open2.net/syrianschool/index.html |
| Keyword(s): | Jaramana School; Mleiha Rural School; Yarmouk School; Zaki al-Arsuzi School |
| Subject terms: | Education--Syria; Schools--Syria--Damascus; Damascus (Syria) |
| Production number: | FKAE641E |
| Videofinder number: | 81378 |
| Available to public: | no |
