“Gaza’s top Tawjihi student felt like she broke the siege against her with determination and the light from her mobile phone, she told Ma’an the day she received the news of her success. Asma Amin Tubasi from Rafah remembers her father telling her to stop studying using the old oil lamp after a series of accidents in the Gaza Strip saw children injured and homes burned due to unsafe fuel smuggled in from Egypt.”
LynnNews, Student ‘posted terrorist propaganda online’, 1 July 2010, "An east London law student posted Islamic terrorist propaganda onto the internet after being radicalised himself, the Old Bailey has heard."
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AFP – An online video game launched on Tuesday lets you play the role of a Gaza student who must negotiate a web of Israeli obstacles in order to attend university in the occupied West Bank — but you can’t win.
“The University of California at Irvine has suspended its Muslim Student Union for one year and placed it on disciplinary probation for an additional year after 12 of its members called Israel’s ambassador to the United States a “killer” during a speech on Campus in February.” (thanks Layali)
Iraqi students on road trip to Niagara Falls
[Editor’s Note: Below is information about an organization devoted to helping Iraqi students. Details are at http://iraqistudentproject.org/]
Iraq: A Cradle of Civilization in Ruins
Iraq’s people were among the first to learn irrigation, to invent the system of writing sounds that is key to our own alphabet, to create a legal system that is the foundation of modern law. During the early Islamic centuries Iraq was a center where ancient learning was translated and preserved, where poetry and music and medicine flourished. In modern times Iraqis have built a thriving system of higher education and have sent thousands of students to study all over the world, returning to teach and work in Iraq. Western institutions of higher learning benefit from the contributions to scholarship and human development that have taken place across the centuries in Iraq.
AP – Israel has denied entry to a Detroit university student of Palestinian descent traveling there for a study-abroad program. Arab-American and civil rights groups plan to protest the decision Thursday.
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“AIPAC and Hillel, the Jewish student group allied with AIPAC, came up with the strategy of having Jewish students tell the university senate that seeing signs calling for divestment frightened them. Some broke down in tears when describing the pain of seeing pro-divestment placards in the student union. It was hilarious because it was so utterly bogus. I know that I come from a different era. Back in the day when I was a pro-Israel activist on campus, we traded insults and threw chairs when confronted by our adversaries (some were scary Maoists!) but I don’t recall weeping. We liked confrontation. We were college kids.” (thanks “Ibn Rushd”)
Interesting, though I’d like to see the video: “Student Filmmakers Lift Lid on Taboos of National Life.”
Unseen, it at least sounds daring for the Gulf.
Muslimology, When Madrassa Pedagogy meets Technology, 14 Apr 2010 "Today, with Islamic education online, there is an excellent use of technology, however, this use of technology is one-sided. It is largely used by educators (shaykhs) to teach, however, the only way one can know if it has enhanced learning is by studying the student. Is the student comprehending better? I would contend although
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Yes, Alan Dershowitz, eat your heart out, the student senate at U.C. Berkeley voted 16-4 last night to “urge the University of California to divest from companies who have supplied the state of Israel with materials used in alleged war crimes.”
Scroll down in the comments section here (Carl Randall) to get the news on the final vote.
That report, from the Daily Cal, says,
Also read Russell Bates’s comments there.
Learn To Read And Write Arabic
Find out all about the revolutionary secret technique for learning to read and write Arabic. Read the article here.
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