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- 329 ABOUT THE AUTHORS Evelyne Accad was born in Beirut, Lebanon. Writer, Singer/Composer, Poet, Professor of Comparative Literature, Francophone and Arabophone Literature, African studies and Feminist studies at the University of Illinois, and at the Lebanese American University in Beirut. Author of many studies and novels in both French and English (translated in many languages) published by Spinifex, An-Nahar, Aloès, Côté-Femmes, Heinemann, Indigo, L’Harmattan. Accard has received several prizes among which the 2001 Phoenix prize for Cancer Journeys, the France-Lebanon, ADELF 1994, for Sexuality and War: Literary Masks of the Middle East. Email: evelyneaccad@aol.com e-accad@illinois.edu Robert F. Arnove Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus at Indiana University– Bloomington, is a leading scholar of comparative and international education. He has been the President of CIES and has won many distinguished teaching awards. He has been a visiting scholar at universities in countries ranging from Argentina to Australia. His interest in education and social change and his commitment to combining scholarship with public service have led him to be a teacher union president, a candidate for the US Congress with Barry Commoner’s Citizens Party, and the president of an experimental theatre company. Email: arnove@ indiana.edu Roger Avenstrup was a Senior Consultant in education and development aid. His educational background includes a doctorate on the sociology of education system reform, and he was accredited professor at Oslo University College. After working as a teacher educator in universities and university colleges in Norway, he became reform advisor to the Minister of Education in Namibia, then worked in Tanzania and was an independent consultant. Until his death on 2nd August, 2009, he worked mostly in Africa, but also in Palestine, Turkey and the Balkans, and was contracted by a wide range of development agencies and NGOs. His areas of specialisation were curriculum development, teacher education, quality of education, and sector reform. Judit BALÁZS is Professor of Economics and Military Sciences at the University of West Hungary. She is currently visiting professor in Egypt. She has university degrees in Germany and Hungary. She has held research and teaching posts in Economics and Political Science in various universities across Germany, England, Denmark and Turkey. She had worked as an advisor to the Government of South Africa. Balázs is author of 10 books and more then 200 scholarly articles. Research fields are: social and economic questions of world economy, developing countries, strategic and security issues, peace research. Contact address: University of West Hungary, Sopron 9400 Erzsébet u. 9. Email: balazsj@ktkt.nyme.hu - 330 WalterBgoyaistheManagingDirectorofMkukinaNyotaPublishers ,anindependent private publishing company in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He started his company after leaving the parastatal company, Tanzania Publishing House (TPH), of which for 18 years (1972 - 1990) he was the General Manager.TPH played an important role in publishing progressive literature about African and Third World issues, especially related to the African liberation struggles in Southern Africa which raged on in the sixties and seventies. He was also responsible for developing a strong Swahili language publishing list of fiction and general titles including translations of important works such as Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth and others. He has continued to publish books of social and political interest as well as children’s books and books on art in Eastern Africa. Contact address: Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, P.O. Box 4246. Dar es Salaam Tanzania, Home page: www.mkukinanyota.com Email: walterbgoya@yahoo. co.uk walter@mkukinanyota.com Anders Breidlid Professor of International Education and Development, Oslo University College. PhD, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Field work in South Africa, Sudan, Cuba and Chile. Headed two Norwegian Research Council funded research projects in Sudan and South Africa. Scientific production about education, HIV/AIDS, cultural values, indigenous knowledge, the World Bank etc. Visiting professor at the University of Cape Town 1997-98, at the Instituto Pedagogico Latinamericano y Caribeno, Havana 2005 and at the Pontifica Universidad Catolica, Santiago/Villarricha 2008-2009. Home page: http://home.hio.no/~andersb/ Email: Anders.Breidlid@lui.hio.no Lothar Brock is Senior Fellow (Research Professor) at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) and teaches International Relations at the Goethe University Frankfurt. He has served as member of the Council of the International Peace Research Association. His fields of interest include peace theory, the politics of international law, development cooperation and environmental world politics. He has co-published with Anna Geis and Harald Müller...

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