Mohamed Osman Elkhosht is sympathetic to President El-Sisi’s drive for what he calls a “new religious discourse” envisioning a contemporary Islam that is open to scientific breakthroughs and tolerant of other faiths. More...
29 octobre 2017
29 octobre 2017
Training Center Gives Former Child Soldiers a New Start
The youths were playing on a free day at a training center of the Union of Technicians for Unemployed Young People (Union des Techniciens en Faveur des Jeunes Désoeuvrés), a nongovernmental organization that is trying to help reintegrate former child soldiers into society. More...
29 octobre 2017
A School of Fine Arts Feels the Effects of War
Raneem Zarzar was only 16 when her three brothers and one sister left Syria and made their way to Europe as refugees. Her parents tried to persuade her to join her brothers, who eventually settled in Germany and the Netherlands, but she refused. More...
29 octobre 2017
Egyptian Vocational Education Largely Fails the Country’s Youth
Five years have passed since Mohammed el-Sayed graduated from the Industrial Secondary School’s electricity department in Assiut, 350 kilometers south of Cairo. Contrary to his expectations, he hasn’t been able to get a job in his specialty. More...
29 octobre 2017
A Regional Survey: How Arab Countries Regulate Quality in Higher Education
Setting up a new university in an Arab country is a complex, elaborate affair subject to detailed government regulation, according to the results of a survey conducted by Al-Fanar Media. But the survey also found that after licenses are issued, government follow-up to check educational quality is usually weak or nonexistent. More...
29 octobre 2017
Legendary Lebanese Filmmaker Now Focuses on Students
Georges Nasr, the moviemaker and film teacher who turned 90 years old this year, is often viewed as the father of Lebanese cinema. His film “Ila Ayn” (Whither?) is widely considered to have put Lebanon on the map of global movie-making. More...
29 octobre 2017
Referendum on Kurdistan’s Independence Echoes in Education
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...
29 octobre 2017
Academic Freedom Report Highlights Repression in Turkey
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...
29 octobre 2017
A Kuwaiti Academic Fights for Embracing Diversity
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...
29 octobre 2017
Donors Fall Short on Aid for Refugee Education
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...
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