Ten Iraqi universities closed their doors as the Islamic State seized swaths of northwestern Iraq three years ago. More...

The Mshatta Façade is among myriad artifacts from the ancient Islamic world that draws more than 700,000 visitors to the Pergamon Museum in this German city every year. More...

As studies go, they don’t get much more momentous than the one published in Nature last month. Its authors describe how they discovered and analyzed what turned out to be the world’s oldest human remains in Morocco. More...

New research from Qatar University has documented the concentration of microplastics in the Gulf’s seawaters for the first time. It’s part of a worldwide trend to catalogue the global distribution of these tiny plastics, which mainly come from cosmetic products. More...

Saif Hassan, 20, completed vocational high school last year, with a specialization in carpentry and decorating. Although he wanted to pursue an advanced degree in the same profession, he was unable to do so. More...

Masoud Burhani, a 30-year-old Afghan refugee, met with officials at the ministry of education here recently to join an innovative new project supporting higher education for refugees. More...

The UN Refugee Agency, also known as UNHCR, provides the scholarships through the Albert Einstein German Academic Refugee Initiative Fund, or DAFI. The program, supported by the German government, was the first major scholarship program in the world that helped young refugees enter higher education. Since the program began in 1992, more than 12,000 refugee students have benefited. More...

Adrian Melendez, a Mexican, first met Jackdar Mohammed, a Syrian, at a freshly constructed refugee camp in northern Iraq in March of 2013. Mohammed, both a refugee and a volunteer at the camp, jokingly offered the Mexican a spicy meal. A year later that encounter had changed both of their lives—and many others’ lives as well. More...

Tunisian professors seeking better pay and working conditions are emigrating in large numbers, leaving the students and professors left behind worrying the country’s quality of education. More...