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The problems of higher education in the Arab States

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    Raji Abou-Chacra

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Dean of the Faculties of Science and Education, the Lebanese University, where he is professor of particle physics. Member of the Lebanese Association for the Advancement of Science and member of various national education committees. Author of Ashi'a al-lizar wa-tatbiqatiha (Lasers and their Applications);participated in the translation into Arabic of the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms.

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Abou-Chacra, R. The problems of higher education in the Arab States. Prospects 21, 374–385 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02336445

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