07/06/2008
University World News
Zimbabwe: 'Draconian' new higher education law
A new law governing higher education institutions in Zimbabwe, soon to become operational, has been dismissed by critics as draconian. Minister for Higher and Tertiary Education Stan Mudenge announced that the government was in the process of appointing a nine-member board that will exert control over institutions under the legislation - the Zimbabwe Council for Higher Education Act.
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06/29/2008
Reuters
Saudi wife calls for reformer's release
RIYADH, June 29 (Reuters) - When Jamila al-Ukla's husband was taken by Saudi state security forces last month, she spent five days searching before finding him in prison, she says.
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06/06/2008
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Political-Science Association Rallies Behind Saudi Professor
The American Political Science Association has appealed to the government of Saudi Arabia to release Matrouk al-Faleh, a political scientist and one of the country’s leading human-rights activists, who was arrested in Riyadh on May 19.
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04/18/2008
The Miami Student
Uzbekistan lecture addresses civil injustice
Guest lecturer Nozima Kamalova spoke on the civil rights injustices in her native country of Uzbekistan Wednesday afternoon in Harrison Hall at Miami University. During her talk, she focused primarily on how personal liberty and personal security are balanced in a modern world.
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03/18/2008
The Harvard Crimson
'A Professor Without a University'
Former Baghdad University dean seeks to shed light on Scheherazade through Shakespeare
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03/03/2008
The Daily Courier
Lecture focuses on Rwandan genocide
Dr. Jean-Marie Kamatali, former dean of the law school at the National University of Rwanda, will discuss "Back Together Again: The Challenge of Post-Conflict and Post-Dictatorship Societies" from 6 to 7 p.m. Thursday in the Davis Learning Center auditorium at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
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02/22/2008
Open Source
Iran in the Long View: Benham Abu Al-Souf
Listen to the archeologist Behnam Abu Al-Souf long enough, and you’ll be hearing the Iraqi uncle you never knew you had. Dr. Ben as I call him is a great bear of muscular, hands-on scholarship. For half a century he has been an eminence in the excavation and preservation of neolithic Northern Iraq. By now he is a sort of Father Time from Mesopotamia, a man with ten or fifteen thousand years of historical memory in his head, about the land for which archeology was invented. He is at Brown this winter, a “scholar at risk.” And we have been having this long, free-ranging conversation about the recent and ancient past of Iraq, about the Baghdad he finally escaped (”I came out of Hell”), and sometimes about the future of his country.
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02/19/2008
Human Rights Watch
Burma: Arrest of Journalists Highlights Junta's Intolerance
(New York, February 19, 2008) � The Burmese government�s arrest of two journalists and its decision to extend the detention of a prominent opposition leader demonstrate its continuing contempt for political freedoms despite its preparations for a constitutional referendum in May, Human Rights Watch said today.
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02/18/2008
Iran Press Service
The Fight for Iran's Freedoms
NEWSWEEK
Feb 18, 2008 Issue
It is easy to criticize U.S. policy toward the Middle East today: Washington's militaristic approach has contributed to the growth of fundamentalism and helped strengthen dictatorial regimes. Still, Iran's fundamentalist rulers often use such criticism as a way of disguising their own ineptitude and their responsibility for Iran's deplorable conditions— including the suppression of civil society, which is undergoing another severe crackdown as I write.
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02/17/2008
Parade
My Life Under a Dictator
Growing up in Zimbabwe, I dreamed of being a teacher. My mother taught elementary school, and I was inspired by the world of ideas. When I was young, my country was a highly educated society with a strong economy. We had plenty of food to eat and a sense of freedom.
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02/04/2008
News @ UoT
U of T's Scholars-at-Risk program: Haven for scholars
Professor Fereshteh Molavi often sits at her desk in Massey College surrounded by Persian literature, which is both her passion and a reminder of her culture. It's a subject she has decided to make her calling at the University of Toronto. As a member of the Scholars-at-Risk program at Massey College, she has been given the chance to teach Persian literature in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern
Civilizations, a privilege she didn't have in her home country of Iran.
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01/23/2008
E-Bangladesh
Teachers freed, students still behind bars
Three Dhaka University teachers charged with breaching the Emergency Powers Rules during the August 2007 campus protests were freed from jail Tuesday on a presidential clemency. No application was filed for the mercy. DUTA president Sadrul Amin, general secretary Anwar Hossain, Social Sciences dean Harun-or-Rashid, were released after the president suo moto remitted the sentences they were given hours before. Applied Physics and Electronics department chair, Neem Chandra Bhowmick, was released after being acquitted of the charges in two cases over the campus protests of August 21 and 22, 2007. Eleven students, one of whom is still detained in jail, were also acquitted of the charges. Eight students, detained in jail, however, were not released Tuesday although they were either acquitted of the charges along with the teachers or the cases they faced were supposed to be withdrawn.
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01/18/2008
CBC Ottawa
French-Iranian filmmaker released from Iran
France's Foreign Ministry confirmed the return of Montreal-based filmmaker Mehrnoushe Solouki to Paris late Friday morning, the same day Iranian officials permitted her departure after nearly a year in Tehran.
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