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News & Reports
Sudan’s Revolution, Phase 2: Universities Seek Independence
Universities were drivers of last year's revolution in Sudan. Now students and professors want to free universities from the government’s…
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A New Academic Freedom Report Describes Worldwide Attacks on Higher Education
The report highlights Sudan and says the space to think freely is shrinking in many countries.
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Scholar Traces the Rise of Nongovernmental Organizations in Iraq
Thousands of civil-society organizations sprang up after 2003, during Iraq’s postwar reconstruction. The historian Mehiyar Kathem is exploring how they…
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Opinion
A Roundup of Scholarly Commentary on Lebanon’s Protests
As the protests in Lebanon enter their fifth week, Al-Fanar Media has summarized what leading scholars have to say about…
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Iraqi Scholars Learn to Find Their Voice in Academic Publishing
Workshops in Iraq help scholars in the social sciences and humanities learn how to write for international, English-language academic journals.
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Fewer Syrians in Lebanon Are Reaching Universities
Syrian refugee students face obstacles at every level of Lebanese education, and many are dropping out from education altogether.
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In Algeria, the Academic Year Gets Off to a Chaotic Start
Professors and administrators scramble to catch up on exams and student registrations that were forcibly postponed by a ministerial decree…
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Algeria’s Higher-Education Minister Encourages Switch From French to English
Minister Tayeb Bouzid says “French doesn’t get you anywhere,” and announces committee to develop Anglophone teaching in Algerian universities.
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A Form of Yemeni Poetry Thrives in Defiance of War
At a Cairo conference this month, scholars began the process of listing a form of traditional Yemeni poetry on the…
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Artificial Intelligence Helps Computers Leap Forward in Reading Arabic
New projects use artificial intelligence to read Arabic publications of all kinds, opening up the possibility that local, print-only archives…
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