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...
Three years ago, El-Hadi Abdullah traveled from the Darfur region in western Sudan to Khartoum to complete his university studies at Sudan University of Science and Technology. He left his family behind him, scattered in three camps set up by the United Nations on the periphery of Darfur for those who have fled war. More...
Researchers in different fields of medicine have teamed up to tackle one of the Gulf’s biggest health concerns: Type 2 diabetes. More...
Dana al-Mansouri, a third-year Qatari student at an Emirati medical school, will not be able to take her final exam this year because of the United Arab Emirate’s decision to break diplomatic relations with her country and cease all other contact. More...
Trust, cooperation and shared values among Syrians have fallen sharply throughout the country since the civil war began. That’s according to a new report by the independent Syrian Center for Policy Research, which analyzed the influence of the armed conflict on social relations in the country. More...
Despite busy schedules filled with lectures, exams and deadlines, some students are choosing to add to their commitments by participating in internships abroad. Such programs are attracting increasing numbers of university students from Arab countries, and helping students develop a variety of practical skills. More...
The ministry of higher education and scientific research here has allocated 2.5 million Tunisian dinars (about $1.2 million) over four years to support academic efforts to better understand the roots of radicalization in young people, and how to combat it. Four research projects have been selected for support under the initiative—one in the humanities and social sciences, and three in engineering and technology. More...
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