Improving education is the goal of every government in the Arab world today. Yet rather than wait for governments and political situations to change, two Palestinian entrepreneurs from Nablus are taking education into their own hands with Scholarshiper, an online platform that helps connect Arab students to international scholarships. In 2009, Jafar Hajeer and Ibrahim Dweikat realized that Arab youth, especially in Palestine, were missing on many opportunities to study abroad, simply because information about potential scholarships and programs was not readily available in Arabic. To help solve this problem, they built …
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As great as the encouragement is and there should be more promotion of education in Arab countries. However, for me the key line in this article is “because information about potential scholarships and programs was not readily available in ARABIC”. In my opinion the education system in the Arab world should include education in English too, that way the Arab youths themselves will become inspired to achieve anything they want in any part of the world, if their basic and fundamental education prepares them to go on to achieve academic excellence in Western countries. By doing this they are improving their own education standard first and foremost, and with time when West educated Arabs return they contribute to better education and career standards so the reliance of the West slowly fades.