QATAR: FOR QATARI EDUCATORS, WOMEN ARE BOTH THE PROBLEM AND THE SOLUTION

BY RICHARD H. CURTISS

Saif Ali M. Al-Kuwari brushes aside compliments on Qatar's remarkable educational progress. "Running the schools for an American city of 600,000 wouldn't seem like a very big problem," he says.

Whatever the truth of that assertion, what Qatar's assistant under-secretary for educational affairs modestly doesn't mention is that there is no American city with the same population as Qatar that had to start an educational program virtually from scratch in 1956. Prior to the opening of a Qatari public ...

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