Volume 13(2) of Mediterranean Journal of Educational Studies (MJES) is now available and may be accessed at: www.um.edu.mt/emcer/mjes. The focus of this special edition is 'Mediterranean studies in comparative education'. It is edited by Carmel Borg, Peter Mayo and Ronald Sultana. It includes papers on:

• Looking back before moving forward: building on 15 years of comparative educational research in the Mediterranean, by Ronald Sultana;

• Knowledge and post-colonial pedagogy by Josann Cutajar;

• Education and the teaching of history in the light of encouraging conflict resolution in Cyprus, by Isabelle Calleja;

• Dis/integrated orders and the politics of recognition: civil upheavals, militarism, and educators' lives and work by André Elias Mazawi;

• Global discourses and educational reform in Egypt: the case of active learning pedagogies by Mark Ginsburg and Nagwa Megahed;

• The permanence of distinctiveness: performances and changing schooling governance in the Southern European welfare states by Paolo Landri.

The journal contains a book review and the inaugural speeches at the Third Mediterranean Society of Comparative Education conference held recently in Malta. MJES is a free access six-monthly refereed international journal published by the University's Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Educational Research (EMCER). Its editor-in-chief is Ronald Sultana, who may be contacted at ronald.sultana@um.edu.mt.

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