Kabul, Afghanistan (AFP): Afghan education authorities staged secondary-school leaving exams for girls across much of the country Wednesday despite most of them being barred from attending classes for over a year. The education ministry would provide no details of the exams — or how many pupils were sitting them — and refused to al...
ANKARA (AA) – The European Union Delegation to the Palestinians has said it was “appalled” after Israeli forces destroyed a primary school in the Masafer Yatta in the occupied West Bank. “Appalled by news that ISF demolished the donor funded Sfai school in Masafer Yatta in occupied Palestinian territory, one day after a...
KABUL, Afghanistan (AA) – A modest library has been established in the Afghanistan capital to honor Hazara victims killed in a suicide bomb attack on an education center. The attack occurred Sept. 30 at the Kaaj Education Center in the Dasht-e Barchi — a predominantly Hazara neighborhood. At least 53 people were killed, including 4...
Chandan Mori, Pakistan (AFP): Pakistani three-year-old Afshan’s trip to school is a high-wire balancing act as she teeters across a metal girder spanning a trench of putrid floodwater, eyes fixed ahead. After record monsoon rain flooded her classroom in the southeastern town of Chandan Mori, this is the route Afshan and her siblings now ...
ANKARA (AA) – Around 40 million Azerbaijanis living abroad do not have access to education in their native language, President Ilham Aliyev said at the Turkic states’ summit. Speaking at the meeting of the Organization of Turkic States leaders in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Aliyev said: “The Turkic world does not consist only of i...
Kabul, Afghanistan (AFP): A month after losing her eye in a deadly suicide bomb attack on her academy, a young Hazara woman has finished among the top candidates in Afghanistan’s tough university entrance exams. Results issued over the weekend showed Fatima Amiri scored 313 points out of a possible 360 in the “Kankor”, a high...
KABUL, Afghanistan (AA) – Despite many obstacles, self-sacrificing Afghan women educators have taken it upon themselves to teach girls who are not allowed to go to school, child workers who contribute to their families’ livelihoods, and illiterate women. The Taliban, who came to power in Afghanistan in August 2021, have imposed restricti...
ISTANBUL (AA) – A Jordanian filmmaker and producer is fighting stereotypes about Muslims with the help of virtual reality films on Islamic history. “We’ve been producers and filmmakers for over 10 years but we never thought that we will go into entertainment until we were in Disney,” Samah Safi Bayazid shared. Bayazid i...
AFRIN, Syria (AA) – A 10-year-old girl is teaching her peers how to read and write, math, and Quranic recitation inside a tent-cum-classroom in northern Syria. Meryem Ahmed along with her mother had to take refuge in the Rahmet Camp in the central city of Afrin after losing her father in a 2017 attack by […]
Mogadishu, Somalia (AFP): At least nine people, including children, died on Saturday in twin car bomb attacks targeting Somalia’s education ministry in the capital Mogadishu, security officers and witnesses said. Two cars packed with explosives were detonated minutes apart near the busy Zobe junction and followed by gunfire, “I was...
