Leaders at Buffalo Public Schools in New York are pushing to allow Muslim students to take off from school for their religious holiday. Muslims across the U.S. and globally are now observing Ramadan. The month of fasting ends in early May this year, with the Eid al-Fitr festival, including a big celebration attended by thousands […]
On Monday, officials said Bangladesh has shut the largest private school for Rohingya refugees. Since December, Bangladeshi authorities have been shutting down schools set up by the Rohingya, and late last week closed Kayaphuri School. The school was set up by Mohib Ullah, a prominent Rohingya community leader allegedly gunned down in Septembe...
On Sunday women’s rights activists pledged to launch a wave of protests across Afghanistan if the Taliban failed to reopen girls’ schools within a week. Thousands of secondary school girls flocked to classes Wednesday after the Taliban reopened schools for the first time since seizing power last August. But officials ordered the schools shut a...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Women foreign ministers from 18 countries on Friday expressed their concern over the suspension of schooling for girls beyond the sixth grade in Afghanistan. “As women and as foreign ministers, we are deeply disappointed and concerned that girls in Afghanistan are being denied access to secondary schools this spring,” for...
ISTANBUL – Educational institutions reopened in Afghanistan after a gap of nearly seven months. Officials of the Taliban-led interim government held a ceremony to mark the new academic calendar. At a function in Amani High School in Kabul, Syed Ahmad Shahid Khel, a Taliban official, said Islam considers knowledge, and understanding “as b...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The Taliban’s decision to suspend schooling for girls beyond the sixth grade is “deeply damaging” for Afghanistan, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Wednesday. The decision came as Afghanistan’s educational institutions re-opened Wednesday with girls who were to begin education beyond th...
For 25 years, Shaikh Abdul Quddoos Azhari has been dreaming about opening an Islamic school in Australia’s Northern Territory. He finally succeeded this year after finding the land, getting necessary approvals, and drawing around 35 students. Named the Australian International Islamic College, the school in the city of Darwin is open to studen...
Schools in Indian-administered Kashmir reopened Wednesday after 31 months. Health professionals say mental health issues among children spiked during this period. Schools were first closed down due to the security situation arising from India’s revocation of Kashmir’s limited autonomy in August 2019. They remained closed later due to the restr...
Afghanistan’s main universities reopened on February 26, six months after the Taliban returned to power. The classes under the Taliban are segregated by gender. There were fewer female students than males as they returned to continue their interrupted education. Most secondary schools and all public universities were shuttered following ...
An American college student and a group of Uyghur researchers have created an Uyghur version of the braille alphabet. The development comes at a time when the Chinese government is working to eradicate the Uyghur language in China’s western Xinjiang region. Harris Mowbray, an undergraduate international relations student at the American Univer...