Great controversy in Syria after amendments to the school curricula… and the Minister of Education clarifies

In this context, the Minister of Education announced, today, Thursday, that these changes aim only to delete “what glorifies the previous regime” and “false information” in explaining Qur’anic verses, but what sparked the most controversy related to practical and historical materials, not religious ones, according to what agencies reported. Global news.

On Wednesday, the Ministry’s Facebook page published amendments to a number of academic subjects, which included phrases requesting their cancellation and others replacing them.

Among the amendments are the cancellation of poems related to women, love, and flirtation poems, a text about the opera house, and words related to religious beliefs in ancient history, and the cancellation of texts from the curricula about the Queen of Palmyra, Zenobia, and the story of Khawla bint al-Azwar, as well as the deletion of every negative description of the Ottoman Empire, as well as the deletion of texts related to the executions of May 6. 1916.

Phrases or passages related to propaganda for the previous regime were also cancelled, including, for example, “deleting the regime’s anthem” from one of the Arabic language books, in reference to the national anthem.