Learn what motivates the restive Muslim youth from Tunis to Tehran, what political positions Islamists from Mali to Chechnya are fighting for, where the seeming obsession with Islamic law comes from, where the secularists have vanished to, and whether it makes sense to speak of an Islamic state. More...
Experience the world’s first international age, 3,500 years ago in the ancient Near East, with this free online course.
Over four weeks, this free online course explores four ancient Near-Eastern cultures and how they interacted with each other 3,500 years ago.
Tracking the Egyptian, Mitannian and Hittite superpowers Travel, diplomacy, trade and warfare feature, as we track the ancient Egyptian, Mitannian and Hittite superpowers. We will see how they came into contact with each other in their efforts to extend their influence into the ever-contested Syria-Palestine lands.
We will examine objects from the University of Liverpool’s Garstang Museum of Archaeology - one of the most important collections of artefacts in the UK - enabling you to learn not only about the history of this period, but also how experts use artefacts to reconstruct the past. More...
Danish photographer and London College of Communication Alumni Anders Birger has travelled extensively in Syria since uprisings began there in 2011, documenting life in the now civil war-torn country. More...
Von . Eine „Vermittlerin und Förderin der demokratischen Entwicklung in Ägypten“ – so sieht sich die German University in Cairo (GUC). Mit diesem Anspruch wurde sie vor mehr als zehn Jahren gegründet und so steht es bis heute auf der Webseite der Uni. Die GUC ist die größte Hochschule im Ausland, die von Deutschland finanziell unterstützt wird, ein Prestigeprojekt der deutschen Außen- und Bildungspolitik. Doch in und um die GUC passieren spätestens seit der Revolution in Ägypten vom Januar 2011 Dinge, die nicht zum Selbstverständnis der Uni passen. Politisch aktive Studenten werden mundtot gemacht, nicht mehr zu Klausuren zugelassen – und nun auch rausgeworfen. Mehr...
By . Quick, let’s play a summer game. We’ll call it “find the academic.” And let’s play in Qatar, just to make the game especially challenging.
Summertime temperatures in Qatar can rise above 40 degrees Celsius, 120 Fahrenheit. More...
By . Qatari women have long outnumbered men in the country’s higher education system. Now they are transforming its workforce. In recent years, female enrollment in Qatari universities has been nearly double that of men. More...
By Nuwar Mawlawi Diab. Quality education is a necessary component for the foundation of a successful society. It plays a major part in solving many problems that the Middle East and North Africa, or MENA, region is now facing. Read more...
By David Newman. A great deal of attention has been devoted in recent months to Israel’s response to the academic boycott, despite the fact that its real impact on Israeli scientific collaboration with the world is minimal. Read more...
By Wagdy Sawahel. Weak links between higher education and the labour market lead to a high level of youth unemployment, which represents a waste of human resources and increases the social exclusion that makes societies more vulnerable to civil disorder and political upheaval.
This was the main message from a 4 August European Training Foundation report, The Challenge of Youth Employability in Arab Mediterranean Countries – The role of active labour market programmes.
The report analyses the challenges of youth unemployment in five North African countries including Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia along with three other Arab countries – Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine. Read more...
The leaders of Israel's universities are responding to new proposed cuts in government spending on higher education by invoking Iran, at a time that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that Iran poses a grave threat to the country, Ynet News reported. Read more...
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