9 stories
Hadath University Halls | قاعات جامعة الحدث
She's a professor of Arabic literature at Lebanese University. He's the returning student, fifty years old, finally finishing his degree. Between texts, they discover that education has no age limit. 'Inti ahsan mualmi' (أنتِ أحسن معلمتي).
Qana Poetry | شعر قانا
She teaches children poetry in Qana, near the site of miracles and massacres. He's the UN observer documenting Lebanon's complexities. Between tragedy and hope, they write their own verse. 'Inti el qaside el wahidi' (أنتِ القصيدة الوحيدة).
התחלות בבאר שבע | Beer Sheva Beginnings
At Ben-Gurion University, a professor and a mature student discover that learning isn't the only thing that happens in lecture halls.
Ivory Tower
University president Noor transforms Saudi higher education. When visiting scholar Thomas challenges her methods, academic debate becomes personal thesis. 'Al 'ilm nur' (العلم نور) - Knowledge is light.
The School Board Member
Denise has fought for education equity for twenty years. When a superintendent candidate shares her vision, she discovers some policies need personal implementation.
The Tutor Session
Noor hires a tutor to help her pass her accountancy exams. She doesn't expect Bilal—young, brilliant, and entirely too distracting—to teach her lessons that have nothing to do with numbers.
دَرْسُ الفِعْلِ المَاضِي | The Lesson of the Past Tense
A wealthy merchant's wife teaches her young tutor the intricacies of the past tense verb conjugations through increasingly intimate demonstrations in classical Arabic.
The Somali Tutoring Center
She runs the after-school tutoring center in Cedar-Riverside—a thick ebony divorced teacher who wants every Somali kid to succeed. When he volunteers to help, she shows him her teaching methods. Some lessons happen after the students leave.
The Quran Teacher
She teaches Quran to the children of Zanzibar's elite. When a grown man comes to her for lessons, she teaches him things not found in any holy book.