Social Sciences
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Opinion
Social Sciences and Humanities: A Crisis from Within
Complaints that blame external factors for the disciplines’ decline ignore the responsibility of academics to keep their fields vital, two…
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Support for Social Sciences Declines as Applied Disciplines Rise at Arab Universities
As policy makers focus more on applied sciences, academics worry about the consequences for the social sciences and humanities at…
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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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Empowering Arab Women Goes Beyond Holding Public Positions, Says Hania Sholkamy
The Egyptian anthropologist says the issue is one of social justice: “Feminist movements did not come to support the elite,…
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Saudi Scholar Muna Al-Ghuraibi Wants Social Science Faculties to Update Methods
Muna Al-Ghuraibi, a professor of social studies at King Saud University, says students of faculties that remain too theoretical don’t…
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Opinion
Tackling Climate Change Through Teaching Environmental History
With global warming being felt everywhere, a historian in Qatar argues we should pass on lessons from the environmental past…
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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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Opinion
A Feel for History: Let Students Experience It with All Their Senses
As the Covid-19 pandemic subsides, a historian in Qatar argues that teachers should make the most of the return to…
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Academics in Exile: Hadeel Abdelhameed’s Journey from Iraq to Australia
As the world observes World Refugee Day, Hadeel Abdelhameed relates how she fled a conflict zone and rebuilt her academic…
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