WASHINGTON – The American Anthropological Association (AAA) has joined a Palestinian call to boycott Israeli academic institutions that support the apartheid regime. The largest academic association in the U.S., with 12,000 members, had put the motion to a vote from June 15 to July 14. 71% of members supported the boycott call. The motio...
ANKARA, Türkiye – Prominent Afghan citizens have launched a campaign to force the Taliban to allow the reintroduction of girls’ education in Afghanistan. One of the members of this campaign, Fazl Hadi Wazeen, told Muslim Network News that this campaign has been launched both inside and outside Afghanistan. Wazeen, an academic and p...
NEW YORK (AA) – Advocacy groups have filed a lawsuit against Harvard University for allegedly favoring white students. The lawsuit alleges that the prestigious college gives preferential treatment to applicants with wealthy donors and alumni connections. The civil rights advocates filed the lawsuit on behalf of several advocacy groups, s...
Taez, Yemen (AFP): Every day at dawn, 14-year-old Salim Mohammad leaves home to fetch water, trekking through his city in southwestern Yemen to join the queues at the nearest public dispenser. He and his three siblings walk at least a mile and wait, sometimes for hours, hoping to fill their jerry cans and make it […]
NEW DELHI (AA): A school in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh faced administrative action and was de-recognized for allegedly forcing non-Muslim girls to wear hijabs or headscarves. State Home Minister Narottam Mishra, while talking to journalists in the capital Bhopal on Wednesday, warned that action will continue against the school ...
COLOGNE, Germany (AA): A Muslim student was insulted by a university professor in Germany because she was wearing a headscarf, her lawyer said on Monday. The incident occurred during an economics class at the campus of the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg university in northwestern Germany. The professor used slurs and even compared the Muslim woman’s headscar...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA): Vital archives containing thousands of students and staff documents were destroyed in a fire set by protesters last week at Senegal’s Cheikh Anta Diop University (UCAD) of Dakar, an academic official said Saturday. Violent protests erupted in Dakar and other towns after opposition leader Ousmane Sonko was sentenced to two ...
KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): Two Afghan girls educate the children of poor families living in caves in a classroom in Bamyan — one of Afghanistan’s poorest provinces. Ruya Serferaz (18) and her English class friend Besbegum Havari (19) set off every day regardless of adverse weather conditions, and teach Persian, English, mathematics, ...
Jindayris, Syria (AFP): In a dusty Syrian camp for earthquake survivors, school pupils line up and wait for a colourful bus to pull up. Since the disaster hit, they go to a classroom on wheels. School bags on their backs and notebooks in hand, the children took off their shoes before entering the bus, then […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA): Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called on the Muslim world to invest more in science and technology for Muslim children to bring back the lost glorious heritage of the Muslim community (ummah). “Muslims once showed their leadership in science, technology, literature and culture. But why do the Muslims today...
