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Opinion
Western Universities’ Double Standards on Liberal Values, Academic Freedom
Two academics in Qatar make the case that freedom of speech in Western universities has deteriorated in line with global…
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‘Free to Think 2023’: A Year of Bombings and Other Attacks on Higher Education
A new report from Scholars at Risk’s Academic Freedom Monitoring Project examines efforts to restrict free discourse in both authoritarian…
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Academic Freedom: An Ongoing Quest to Define and Maintain a Key Scholarly Concept
Al-Fanar Media reviews the history of the concept of academic freedom and ongoing attempts to define it and establish standards…
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Saad Salloum Calls on Arab Academics to Value Diversity as the Basis of Unity
The Iraqi scholar, recently honoured for his longtime advocacy of freedom of religion and minorities’ rights, urges academics, politicians and…
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Ibn Rushd Prize Honours Lebanese and Iraqi Advocates of Religious Freedom
Lebanon’s Nayla Tabbara and Iraq’s Saad Salloum, along with their respective organisations, will receive the 2022 Ibn Rushd Prize for…
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New Tunisian Agency to Evaluate Higher Education Institutions Gets Mixed Reception
The plan seeks to improve the international competitiveness of Tunisian higher education and research. Some academics question whether a new…
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Egypt Faces an Uphill Battle as Host of the Next Global Climate Summit
Carrying climate-action commitments forward while addressing new energy and food security crises is a huge challenge, analysts say, and Egypt…
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Algeria’s Ban on Research Ties with Morocco Violates Academic Freedom, Scholars Say
Algerian and Moroccan academics say the decision will have little effect on scholarly output in either country because research collaborations…
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84 Million Youth Are at Risk of Missing Out on Education by 2030
Unesco warns that most countries will fail to achieve their targets under Sustainable Development Goal 4, to provide quality education…
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Legal Scholar Zeina Jallad Says More Women Lawyers Would Help Palestinian Society
The human-rights scholar Zeina Jallad calls for improvements in Palestinian legal education and more support for women in a male-dominated…
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