Texas education board adopts resolution limiting Islam
25 Sep 2010: DALLAS - Another fight broke out on Friday in the ongoing culture war being fought at the Texas State Board of Education. This time, social conservatives on the board pushed through a resolution demanding textbook publishers cut back positive coverage ofA brief History of the Soviet Muslims
02 Apr 2010: The history of the Muslims in the former Soviet Union is largely but not entirely the history of the Muslim descendants of Genghis Khan, the Mongol conqueror. Daghestan was the gate through which Islam entered the territory of Russia. The first MuslimsIndian students to shun Australia due to racist attacks
30 Dec 2009: Australia’s international student sector, the third largest export earner, is forecast to see a 20 percent drop in Indian students in 2010, costing $69.7 million, after a series of attacks on Indians students in 2009. A study by The Tourism ForecastingCo-education gains unlikely nod from Saudi religious police chief
15 Dec 2009: JEDDAH - A hardline member of the Saudi religious police sparked anger among Saudi clerics recently after he eased his views on ikhtilat, the mixing and interaction of unmarried and non-blood-related men and women. The change of heart from Sheikh Ahmed alThe Israeli mainstream school system
10 Oct 2009: TEL-AVIV - In the year 2000, when I was in the ninth-grade, we studied our history from a large and expansive book. Because history teachers in the junior high school are free to some extent to determine what is studied in the classroom, we learned 19thUyghurs face an education dilemma
07 Oct 2009: BEIJING - Language, culture and identity have always been thorny issues in northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Recent developments in the educational system once again bring into the spotlight the delicate balance between China'sPhasing out Islamic Teaching in South Nigeria
01 Oct 2009: LAGOS – Muslim leaders are accusing authorities in the Christian-majority southern states of intentionally undermining Arabic and Islamic teaching in public schools by faking a teacher scarcity. “Most public schools in the South-West lack teachers ofGood news for graduate job seekers
28 Sep 2009: The graduate job market has received a boost with the news that 32.9% of all employers are planning to increase graduate recruitment levels in 2010. The Association of Graduate Recruiters says a further 43.5% of companies plan to keep levels constant. TheSaudi looks to the future, opens coed university
23 Sep 2009: Saudi Arabia’s new $10 billion, state-of-the-art science and technology university welcomes the country’s first coed student body Wednesday in one of the king’s keystone attempts to power his country into the 21st century with renewable energy andFuture hub of international education?
07 Sep 2009: Malaysia will play host to an international education conference next month as part of its goal of becoming a regional hub for international higher education by 2010, with 100,000 students studying at its higher education institutions. The concept ofPuntland State University's History
06 Sep 2009: Puntland State University (PSU) has its roots entrenched from the patriotic and humanitarian joint efforts of KAALO (local NGO) and Diakonia of Sweden that has been instrumental in providing the much needed financial support, physical structures andMillions of student loans have interest rate cut to zero or less
02 Sep 2009: Millions of students and graduates will see the cost of their loans drop to zero or lower tomorrow, after falls in the retail price index this year. While the majority of students – those who took out loans after 1998 – will see the interest on theirKing approves 4 new universities
25 Aug 2009: Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah has approved the establishment of four new universities in Dammam, Alkharj, Shaqra and Majmaa, Higher Education Minister Khaled Al-Anqari announced Monday. The minister thanked the king for his continuousIsrael removes Nakba from schoolbooks
23 Jul 2009: RAMALLAH: The Israeli government has decided to remove references to what Palestinians call the “catastrophe” of Israel’s creation from textbooks for Arab schoolchildren, the education minister said on Wednesday. The term “Al-Nakba,” is used byMI5 target teachers through advert placed in educational press
12 Jun 2009: Would a teacher make a good spy? MI5 would seem to think so, as its new campaign to recruit intelligence officers targets classroom teachers, with an advert strategically placed in today's Times Educational Supplement. "You may not realise it," the advertslashnews
Major quake shakes eastern city of Van
A 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit eastern Turkey yesterday, triggering the collapse of buildings and killing many people, according
to officials and experts. At least 50 people were taken to the single hospital in the city of Van, Anatolia news agency said,
The wretched scandal of Gaza
Past bombed suburbs and scrubland stands the house on the frontier of hell. Once, Abdullah Wahdem's home was a pleasant villa set
in the citrus groves of northern Gaza. Now its cream stucco frontage is pitted by the bullets and artillery salvos that
From Hate to Love -
Story of Adiy ibn Hatim
In the ninth year of the Hijrah, an 'Arab king made the first positive moves to Islam after years of feeling hatred for it. He
drew closer to faith (iman) after opposing arid combating it. And he finally pledged allegiance to the Prophet, peace be on him,
Microsoft Bing in search deal with China’s
Baidu
Microsoft has signed a deal with China’s top search engine, Baidu, to provide the site with censored web search services in
English. Baidu, which dominates 83 per cent of the local market and whose success is built on its Chinese language services, said
