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Ward is Syrian Junior Chess Champion and a gifted child. Now he is traveling with the adult Syrian team to Beirut to take part in the Asian International Championships.

Meanwhile, a small group of boys at the rural primary school have been selected to represent their school in the Ba'ath Party Pioneers Competition. It's a way for the ruling party to encourage the top students, see who could be a good representative of their country and ensure that the party's message of socialism (fast evolving to a free market version) is reinforced in top students. But the Pioneer competition subjects are very broad. Can Wassim and Imad win through with their cardboard models of mosques?

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Despite rarely finding itself out of the headlines, the Middle East is frequently misunderstood. Syrian School goes beyond the clichés to meet the human face of a fast growing young population, whose government is modernizing the education system to encourage a generation of children able to think for themselves. This unique series looks at a fascinating country through the eyes of its schoolchildren, their families and their teachers.