By Gilgamesh Nabeel. Iraqi students are understandably concerned about their career prospects, given the country’s financial crisis caused by the oil-price crash and a long war with the Islamic State. More...

By Vijee Venkatraman. As educational technology improves, digital learning is expected to expand its reach in the developing world. Last week, over two hundred practitioners in the field who belong to the Learning International Networks Consortium convened at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to explore how to speed up such inclusion. More...

By Mai Shams El-Din. A sense of urgency about improving education in Africa dominated a recent eLearning Africa meeting that brought 1,200 educators and experts to Cairo. More...

By Mai Shams El-Din. When Moroccan Belgian educational consultant Khadija Hamouchi came to Egypt almost two years ago, she never imagined the impact her visit would have—turning into what she calls her plan for “an educational awakening in the Arab world.” More...

By Benjamin Plackett. New research conducted in the Great Barrier Reef has pinpointed the specific genes that have the potential to make the corals there resistant to environmental change. Marine biologists in the Arab world hope to do the same for corals in the Gulf. More...