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Religious Scholar In Iran ‘Summoned To Court’
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 9/9
Into Africa
Doug Lederman, Inside Higher Ed, 9/9
No-brainer: top British scientists may flee funding famine for feasts abroad
Simon Baker, Times Higher Education, 9/9
America’s tenure track derails
Sarah Cunnane, Times Higher Education, 9/9
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Academic Freedom Media Review, August 21-27
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The Scholars at Risk media review seeks to raise awareness about academic freedom issues in the news. Subscription information and archived media reviews are available here. The views and opinions expressed in these articles are not necessarily those of Scholars at Risk.
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Call for Urgent Action for Detained Mechanical Engineering Professor Abdul Jalil Al-Singace of Bahrain
Scholars at Risk, 8/27
A Recovery at Risk
David Moltz, Inside Higher Ed, 8/27
U. of Louisiana Board Postpones Vote on Tenure
The Chronicle of Higher Education, 8/27
Iran Launches New Crackdown On Universities
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 8/26
Vietnamese Professor Detained
NEAR International, 8/26
A straight case of discrimination? Lawsuits come in all shades for US institutions
Jon Marcus, Times Higher Education, 8/26
Academic Freedom Review, July 3-9
Scholars at Risk Academic Freedom Media Review
July 3 – 9, 2010
News Alert: Reports suggest release from prison of Dr. Igor Sutyagin
Scholars at Risk, 7/9
ACLU accused UW police of spying on action group
Casey McNerthney, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 7/9
Oil-crisis research casts USF into political waters
Lindsay Peterson, Tampa Bay Online, 7/9
Adjunct Who Taught Catholicism at U. of Illinois Says Job Loss Violated Academic Freedom
The Chronicle of Higher Education, 7/9
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Video Game Developed in Casablanca Will Premier Tomorrow at E3
A short item in the May 30 – June 5 edition of Jeune Afrique notes that the French software company Ubisoft will reveal a new video game conceived and developed entirely in Casablanca, Morocco at the 2010 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) which starts tomorrow in Los Angeles and continues until the 17th.
The article in Jeune Afrique is not specific about which game it is, but the press release on Ubisoft’s web site reports that at least three games will be exhibited at the Ubisoft booth.
Academic Freedom Media Review, June 5-11
Academic Freedom Media Review
June 5 – 11, 2010
Compiled by Scholars at Risk
China defends internet censorship
Michael Bristow, BBC News, 6/10
Marquette Settles With Woman Whose Job Offer Was Revoked /
Inside Higher Ed, 6/10
Paper on Psychopaths, Delayed by Legal Threat, Finally Published /
John Travis, Science, 6/10
Faith and Freedom
Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed, 6/9
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Higher Education, Technology, and the Job Market in Morocco… and the USA
King Fahd School of Translation
I was in Morocco last week for two events relating to the the role of the university in preparing graduating students for the evolving job market in this country. The first was the annual April seminar at the Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies. This year it focused on higher education and the job market and delved into some important issues. I found developments at Abdelmalek Essadi University particularly exciting because I have something of a relationship with that institution. I taught at the King Fahd School of Translation for 2 1/2 years which is a branch of the university, and because a close friends used to teach there.
The universities in Morocco have much more autonomy than they did when I was there, and it appears that the Abdelmalek Essadi, which has campuses in both Tetouan and Tangier, is one of the institutions that has taken greatest advantages of this. It’s outgoing President, Mohammed Bennounna, has done much to transform the institution into one that is responsive to the rapidly changing economic and social realities of contemporary Morocco. Representatives of the private sector at the seminar seemed quite impressed with what has been done, so it seems that the reform is, in fact, movement in the right direction.
Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane
Higher Education, Collaboration, and Education for the 21st Century
TALIM
In a few days I am off to Morocco for a seminar at TALIM on higher education and employment in Morocco. But the job market in the United States is also very challenging of college graduates right now, and American educators may well be asking themselves if higher education in this country is adequately preparing students to enter the work force of the global era.
We still function in terms of national economies, but those economies are increasingly connected so that a crisis in one affects many others. We also live in a world in which graduating students in America compete for employment, directly or indirectly, with their peers in Mexico, Morocco, India and Taiwan. And the whole lot of them are also competing with graduating students in Pakistan, Costa Rica, Tunisia, Israel and Poland. Continue reading
We are the World I and II
This is the video for the 25th anniversary version of “We Are the World”, made for the benefit of earthquake victims in Haiti.
This is a noble project. The disaster in Haiti is certainly one of the worst in recent memory. As of February 10 the reported number of deaths was 230,000. Stalin once said “”A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,” and I confess that 230,000 is a difficult number for me to wrap my head around, so I went looking for points of reference. Comparisons are hard to find.
Video of El Jadida, Morocco
These are two rather nice videos, discovered via a Twitter search. It’s a tour of the “Portugese City” in El Jadida in Morocco. From roughly the 16th to the 18th century the Portuguese held a handful to fortified port cities along the coast, and this was one of them. AlthoughEssaouira is probably the most well known, but El Jadida is arguably better preserved, though both are UNESCO World Heritage Sites. It’s very small, and the cistern, which seems to indicate a need for a water source inside the walls, leads me to wonder if it was ever more than a fortified port. Perhaps “city” is an overstatement. Its topical application can improve the cialis 40 mg navigate to this page regeneration ability of hair. Low testosterone levels cause various cialis generic uk debilities and disorders. You would like to discover as much as it cialis 100mg pills can satisfy without condoms. So, buy levitra is also an awesome treatment for chest pain.
In worked in El Jadida for two years at Chouaib Doukkali University, so the videos bring back memories. It is mostly the images that I really appreciate. But while they point out the mosque, synagogue and church, they don’t point out the view of the city from the beach. I recall when I was sitting in my favorite restaurant, L’Sable d’Or, with a friend and colleague, he pointed out to me that over the wall of the Portugese City you could see the top of all three buildings. This was around sunset, and it was beautiful.
Qantara: Mediterranean Heritage
I just wanted to take a moment to point out this site, which I just discovered tonight. It is a fantastic pedagogical resource, interactive and rich in media. The interactive maps are particularly particularly fun, but there is all kinds of rich media.
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The Qantara project is part of the Euromed Heritage programme, which hopes to contribute to mutual understanding and dialogue between Mediterranean cultures by highlighting their cultural heritage. It aims to encourage intercultural dialogue by supporting the preservation and promotion of the shared historical and cultural heritage of the Euromed region, through human, scientific and technological exchanges…
The Qantara Project is a reflection of the Institut du Monde Arabe in its pursuit of openness and peace, in its modern and multimedia format that targets specialists and non-specialists alike, and in terms of its organisation, which unites several partner countries – Algeria, France, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, and Spain – as well as a guest country, Egypt. Qantara’s goal is to build or rather consolidate the bridge between the North and South, and the East and West of the Mediterranean.