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...
The United Arab Emirates—on its shiny, glass-veneered surface—is an immensely cosmopolitan place. In the 2015 World Migration Report it was named as the world’s most cosmopolitan city because 83 percent of its population was born in another country. London and New York pale in comparison with 37 percent and Paris trails with just 25 percent. More...
Why it is critical for online instructors to acknowledge their assumptions and start each student with a clean slate in the online classroom. More...
The complexities within the emergency response and communication portion of the Clery Act can be daunting, but the University of Miami has some best practices. More...
Like many other universities, the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, Ill., has an e-commerce site for downloads and access to academic software. Like many other e-commerce sites, the U of I’s WebStore ran its shop from department-owned, physical servers until it switched to virtual machines, hosted in a data center; in this case the university’s own. More...
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