academia
Algerian scholar handed 3-year jail term for “offending Islam”
Middle East
April 23, 2021
Algerian scholar handed 3-year jail term for “offending Islam”
Said Djabelkhir, an academic who analyses Sufi Islam and is widely followed for his social media posts, left an Algiers…
Egypt’s Mohamed El-Sayed Badr: an academic exemplifying global success
Features/Interviews
June 18, 2019
Egypt’s Mohamed El-Sayed Badr: an academic exemplifying global success
Egypt’s Mohamed El-Sayed Badr is the youngest professor in Germany to be appointed to the prestigious post as dean of…
University presidents, staff, students protest Trump’s Jerusalem decision
Egypt
December 11, 2017
University presidents, staff, students protest Trump’s Jerusalem decision
Campus demonstration across the country continued on Sunday as students, faculty members, and university leaders stood together and angrily protested…
Italian killing highlights assault on academic freedom in Egypt
Egypt
February 26, 2016
Italian killing highlights assault on academic freedom in Egypt
When a colleague in Holland asked historian Pascale Ghazaleh this month whether to send a group of students to Egypt,…
12 Turkish academics detained for signing declaration
Middle East
January 15, 2016
12 Turkish academics detained for signing declaration
Turkish police on Friday detained 12 people who were among more than 1,000 academics who signed a declaration denouncing military…
AFTE: 2014-2015 saw 1,552 violation in Egypt universities
Egypt
July 8, 2015
AFTE: 2014-2015 saw 1,552 violation in Egypt universities
There were at least 1,552 violations at Egyptian universities in the 2014/2015 academic year, according to a recent analytical report released…
Anniversary of university independence casts doubt on academic freedom
Egypt
March 9, 2015
Anniversary of university independence casts doubt on academic freedom
The date 9 March marks the anniversary of the independence of Egypt’s universities, yet there still considerable debate to what…
Imperialist liberalism and the Egyptian revolution
Opinion
April 13, 2013
Imperialist liberalism and the Egyptian revolution
In the following lines, I level four criticisms against what I term the imperialist liberal trend of thought and how…
Khaled Fahmy: Contemporary alternatives to Shari’a implementation exist
Egypt
October 24, 2010
Khaled Fahmy: Contemporary alternatives to Shari’a implementation exist
In a public lecture on Thursday, Khaled Fahmy, the newly appointed head of the American University in Cairo history department,…