"Seeing the World combines impressive ambition and empirical depth with a powerful comparative approach to make a significant contribution to our understanding of area studies."--Jason Owen-Smith, University of Michigan

Mitchell L. Stevens is associate professor of education at Stanford University. Cynthia Miller-Idriss is associate professor of education and sociology at American University. Seteney Shami is a program director at the Social Science Research Council and founding director of the Arab Council for the Social Sciences.