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Uthman
07-15-2008, 12:51 PM
Up the corniche, along the Saudi Arabian coast where boats carrying pilgrims bound for Mecca sailed for centuries, a thicket of cranes rises over whitewashed mosques along the Red Sea.



Steel flashes and blowtorches glow as 20,000 workers build a $10-billion university ordered up by a king who hopes Western ingenuity will revive the economy of this ultraconservative Muslim nation. When finished next year, the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology will offer coed classes, Western professors, a curriculum in English and other touches loathed as dangerous liberalism by Islamic fundamentalists.

The West may be dependent on Saudi crude, now as high as $145 a barrel, but this campus outside the ancient fishing village of Thuwal is a recognition that the country that is home to Islam’s holiest shrines needs the likes of USC, Oxford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to survive globalization.

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The_Prince
07-15-2008, 03:05 PM
they should be building billion dollar Islamic universities to teach formal Islamic lessons with general educational lessons.
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Keltoi
07-15-2008, 04:16 PM
Religious schools can still be built, but the Saudi economy can't rely on oil revenue forever. The article was spot on when it mentioned globilization. For all the negatives that go with it, globilization is a reality. A Western education will go a long way to building a more diverse economy in Saudi Arabia, which is what it will need before the end of the century. That doesn't mean religious education has to be abandoned altogether.
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north_malaysian
07-18-2008, 07:58 AM
I think when it comes to economy...UAE is leading in the Middle East.... everybody is going there for business...
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