Research—Latest Weapon Against Female Genital Mutilation
Academics in the region are taking on FGM and providing much needed data to help combat the practice.
U.S. Travel Ban Temporarily Halted Amid Global Outcry
The president’s executive order has provoked criticism from U.S. academics, but little debate in the Arab world.
U.S. Selective Ban on Visas Shuts Out Arab Students
President Donald Trump’s executive order temporarily blocking the citizens of seven countries from entering the United States could ultimately affect up 17,000 Arab and Iranian students.
New Insights On the Arab World: 2016 Books
Ursula Lindsey offers up a cornucopia of fiction and nonfiction in Arabic, English and French for an intellectual feast.
Five Years After the Arab Spring, Report Warns of New Uprising
With two thirds of the Arab population under 30, a United Nations agency makes an urgent call for economic and political reform.
New Report Strikes an Optimistic Note on Arab Education
The U.K.-based Commonwealth Secretariat ranks Arab countries as doing fairly well on Arab educational development, compared to their international peers.
Arab Youth Doubt Democracy Will Be Delivered
Findings from a region-wide survey reveal the hopes and concerns of university-age adults.
The Splintering of Somalia Has Crippled Education
With a low student enrollment rate and weak government oversight, education at all levels in Somalia is limping, at best. A few people are trying to change that.
