The expected resounding “yes” vote in the Kurdish independence referendum on September 25 will throw the fate of non-Kurdish students and the governance of the region’s 30 universities into uncertainty. More...

Since last September, the report says, more than 7,000 faculty and staff members at universities in Turkey have been dismissed from their jobs, and nearly 300 students have been expelled, under emergency decrees issued by Erdoğan’s government. More...

The academic and writer Ibtihal al-Khatib has long been a controversial public figure in Kuwait because of her bold positions on secular values and the rights of marginalized and oppressed groups. More...

Last year six governments promised hundreds of millions of dollars to help educate Syrian refugee children. Human Rights Watch investigated the progress of those donors in fulfilling their pledges and says it found large-scale discrepancies between what was promised and what was delivered. More...

The civil disorder that has prevailed in much of Libya since the overthrow of the regime of Mu’ammar al-Qadhafi  has spread to the country’s campuses, with attacks on professors causing many to emigrate rather than live in the midst of conflict. More...

BIRZEIT, Ramallah—Sipping lemonade and orange juice, the crowd of local and international luminaries who attended the Palestinian Museum’s first exhibit this weekend hoped they were witnessing a new dawn for art and politics in the troubled region. More...

Most Arab countries use final exams at the end of high school to decide if students will go on to university and which university they will go to. But Egypt’s Ministry of Education is planning a sharp departure from this system. More...

This investigative report was supported by Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ) and first ran in Arabic in Alqabas, a publication based in Kuwait. This edited translation appears here with the permission of ARIJ and the reporter. More...

The rising cost of a university education in Jordan is shutting out low-income students and revealing long-term structural problems with the financing of higher education. More...

The ideology of the Libyan state under the dictator Mu’ammar al-Qadhafi discouraged the study of the country’s ancient past. 
Al-Qadhafi viewed archaeology as a relic of colonialism, and it was said that he would punish officials by banishing them to the country’s antiquities department. More...