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Arab Students in India Are Stranded by the Country’s New Covid-19 Crisis
As India struggles with a deadly surge of Covid-19 cases, many Arab students are stranded there with few resources.
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Academic Self-Censorship Is a ‘Brain Drag’ on Arab Universities and Societies
Academic self-censorship not only hinders individuals’ intellectual output and creativity but comes at a cost to whole societies.
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Self-Censorship in Arab Higher Education: an Untold Problem
Arab professors routinely practice self-censorship, which limits academic discourse, a survey by Al-Fanar Media and Scholars at Risk found.
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Preserving the Vanishing Heritage of East Africa’s Swahili Coast
Traces of a culture once at the center of exchange between Islam and East Africa are in danger of disappearing.…
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![According to Idris, the fund was one of the richest government facilities, directly funded by the presidency under the previous regime, but it currently houses more than 1,500 students in accommodations that are designed for 600 students. (See a related article, “Sudan’s Revolution, Phase 2: Universities Seek Independence.”) In an official statement, Fadwa Taha, chancellor of the university, agreed that University of Khartoum students were living in “miserable” conditions and said the university should supervise their housing financially and administratively instead of the Student Welfare Fund. However, Ahmed Al-Bashir Muhammad Al-Hassan, director of the fund, rejected the proposal in a television interview, saying it would add to the administrative and economic burden on the university administration. Violence Against Students The university statement noted allegations by students that a murder had been committed in one of the dormitories, but it gave no details. This month, students at Omdurman University also said they had witnessed a murder when one of them was stabbed by three people who tried to steal his phone while he was walking from the university dormitory to his college building. [Enjoying this article? Subscribe to our free newsletter.] Demands raised at the sit-in included greater protection, such as fencing the university on all sides, placing guards at entrances, and preventing non-students from entering university housing. Rajia Fattah, a student in the Faculty of Economic and Social Studies at the University of Khartoum, said female students’ housing suffers from the same problems as men’s accommodations and that many women quit studying. Although the problems are not new and date back to 2017, she said, they have worsened this year. “The situation is so bad that it has become almost impossible to study,” she said. “The only good difference today is that we can go out to express ourselves and protest, which was not possible in the past.”](https://i0.wp.com/www.al-fanarmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/164065123_143048074375666_7656227617221503713_n.jpg?resize=390%2C220&ssl=1)
U. of Khartoum Students Protest Violence and Poor Housing Conditions
University of Khartoum students protest unsafe conditions on the campus, but officials disagree over who is responsible for improvement.
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Sudanese Writer in Exile Knows Life’s ‘Violent Reality,’ and Its Flashes of Joy
Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin fled Sudan to escape persecution. His 2009 novel The Jungo, once banned, has won praise and prizes—in…
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Somalian and Sudanese Girls’ Lives Were Difficult Enough. They’re Getting Worse.
In Somalia, Sudan, and regions of Ethiopia that host refugees from those countries, girls face a harsh life that often…
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Teaching Gender and Women’s Studies in the Middle East
Four scholars of gender and women’s studies reflect on the challenges of teaching gender politics in the Middle East and…
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For Students With Disabilities, the Pandemic Adds Another Barrier
Covid-19 has largely heightened the inequality that disabled students already face, although for a small proportion of students, it has…
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Scholars Confront a Silence About Blackness in Middle East Studies
In a digital conversation, a panel of professors and students challenged the persistent notion that race is “somehow beyond the…
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