As part of the Annual U.S.-Islamic World Forum hosted by the Brookings Institution's Saban Center and the Government of Qatar, AMIDEAST will convene a three-day workshop in Washington, DC, in April 2011 on higher education reform in the Arab World.  The forum provides a unique opportunity for top education, government, and nonprofit leaders from the United States and the Islamic world to discuss critical issues of mutual concern and work on building agreement for further action in these areas.   The workshop will focus on the current state of higher education in the Middle East and North Africa. Considering a broad spectrum of public and private sector models currently present in the region, participants will seek to develop guidelines for moving forward with reform in core areas such as teacher and program quality, institutional capacity, resource allocation, accreditation, regulatory oversight, and labor market responsiveness.