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While relative peace and stability have followed the Assad regime’s collapse, the proposed educational changes have stoked worries about the country’s new Islamist leadership.

There is concern growing in Syria that the new Islamist-led authorities have already decided on changes to the school curriculum, without the input of the rest of society.

Also omitted were the text for Syria’s citizenship law, a section on the evolution of vertebrates’ brains, and mention of Zenobia, a famed pre-Islamic queen of the ancient city Palmyra.

Syria’s new government has triggered outrage after introducing an overhaul of the education curriculum that critics argue will impose an Islamist agenda on school students.

The significance of the great Syrian heroine Queen Zenobia, who once ruled Palmyra in the Roman era, seems to have been downplayed. The Assad era has essentially been excised from the curriculum ...