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...
American students saw big declines in reading and math scores after years of disrupted learning due to the pandemic. The National Assessment of Educational Progress, also known as the Nation’s Report Card, released full data Monday for the first time since 2019. The 2021 exams were postponed a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. NAEP […]...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AA) – University lecturers in Nigeria have suspended their strike after eight months following several appeals by authorities and a court order to resume work, a union announced. The strike was suspended following a court judgement earlier this week and interventions by the country’s President Muhammadu Buhari, ...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan’s Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai visited a school in the southern port city of Karachi on Tuesday, stressing the need for improvement in the quality of education, particularly for girls. Yousafzai, who is also the “UN Messenger of Peace” with a special focus on girls’ education, is visiting Pakistan to assess...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Saudi Arabia has reopened a number of Turkish schools closed by the kingdom last year, according to a Turkish diplomat. “A number of schools run by the Turkish Education Ministry began to operate,” Huseyin Eren Yildiz from the Turkish Consulate in Jeddah city told Anadolu Agency. He said Turkish primary schools in […]...
Kabul, Afghanistan (AFP): Students of the minority Hazara community remain unfazed by the obstacles to education in Afghanistan and have pledged that they will return to class. “Education is our weapon and they want to take this weapon away from us,” said 19-year-old Wajiha, a day after escaping the assault that killed 35. “I...
