Rasha Faek
Rasha is an experienced journalist and editor, who has joined Al-Fanar Media since its launch early in 2013. She has contributed to international publications such as USA Today and Bloomberg BAN. Rasha holds three bachelor’s degrees in English literature from Damascus University, in dramatic arts from the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Damascus, and in journalism from Damascus Open University. She was a keynote speaker at the Denver University Internationalization Summit in 2017, titled: Refugees, Migration and the Internationalization of Higher Education. Rasha contributed to a manual on Education Journalism, produced by Al-Fanar Media in 2014, and put an Arabic guideline on how to write about Women, security and peace, published by the Syrian Female Journalists Network in 2018. She has also contributed a 7,000-word chapter entitled “Syria: Educational Decline and Decimation” for the book Education in the Arab World, published by Bloomsbury in 2017.
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News & Reports
Tribal Violence Plagues Jordanian Public Universities
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A Second Chance for Many Arab Students
Arab Open University blends online learning and classroom time to reach students who might not attend university otherwise.
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Arab Stereotypes: How One Academic Fights Them
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Helping Business Students Learn About Social-Media Strategies
A course at the American University of Beirut focuses on ways to use platforms like Facebook and Twitter to create…
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A Gateway to Arab World Educational Research
An online database documents academic research produced in Arab countries about education.
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A Database to Support Higher Education in Morocco
Morocco is trying to use a national database to comprehensively track its education and national research system.
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Damascus Campus Shelled: Syrian Students Struggle
A mortar attack on the architecture school at the University of Damascus last week was the latest wound to what…
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Paralyzing Strike in Lebanese Public Education Ends
A successful strike for higher salaries by professors at Lebanese University, the only public university in the country, spread to…
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New “Observatory” Analyzes Arabic on the Internet
A new project will help scholars analyse information in Arabic on the Internet.
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Opinion
How ‘Al-Fanar’ Got its Name
When I first did an Internet search for news items in Arabic related to universities, the most prominent results that…
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