Fatuma Omar Ismail: A scholar
30 May 2009: If Fatuma was an ordinary Somali girl, she might well have been traded for some cows or a couple of camels by now. At 15, she's at prime marriageable age and as the daughter of a poor family, her bride price would be a comparative bargain. Luckily FatumaFrance's oldest Muslim school 'condemned to death'
28 May 2009: "Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar!" As the imam's wail rises, the rows of worshippers kneel. "Allahu Akbar!" The rows touch their foreheads to the floor. Between the prayer mats the white lines of a sports court are just visible. On the wall, a poster showingViolence, Instability Force Thousands of Professionals to Flee
23 Mar 2009: Last month, Omar Hassan said goodbye to Somalia, a country so violently polarized that his job in the capital of Mogadishu finally became too controversial. He is a veterinarian. Over the past two years, Hassan stopped making vaccination rounds at theTop-class graduates struggle for jobs as they spurn stricken banks
20 Mar 2009: Thousands of highflying graduates, who made banking their first career choice for years, are risking major disappointment as they fight for places as accountants and lawyers. Talent is flocking to a handful of leading professional services firms as theStudents protest AMISOM acts
20 Mar 2009: Somali students take to the streets, demanding that AMISOM stops using civilian districts and universities as military bases in Mogadishu. Thousands of student activists on Thursday began rioting in the Hodon district of the Somali capital, calling forPalestinian children denied basic right to education, envoy says
20 Mar 2009: A UN education envoy from the Gulf has called for “sanctions and punishment” to be meted out on Israel and other countries responsible for damaging schools and denying children the right to learn. Speaking during a debate on schooling during wars andBook on sex education creates stir in UAE
26 Feb 2009: DUBAI: A first of its kind book on sexual education written by an Emirati social worker has created heated debates in the online community in the UAE. Wedad Lootah, a counselor at the Dubai Family Court, wrote the 221-page book, “The Secrets of SexualSmoke screen over assault on Gaza
23 Feb 2009: Clive Margolis (Letters, 18 February) provides a smoke screen analogous to that produced by white phosphorus munitions. Both our letter opposing Israel science days at UK museums, and the facts of Israel's assault on Gaza, are misrepresented. TheHow is Islam similar to Christianity and Judaism?
23 Jan 2009: Judaism Christianity, and Islam, in contrast to Hinduism and Buddhism, are all monotheistic faiths that worship the God of Adam, Abraham, and Moses-creator, sustainer, and lord of the universe. They share a common belief in the oneness of GodFunding cuts push universities into ‘class war’
20 Jan 2009: A “CLASS WAR” has erupted between universities over plans to slash government funding for elite institutions such as Oxford and Cambridge and redistribute much of it to former polytechnics. The two factions are fighting over £1.5 billion of researchComputing/IT skills 'essential' to graduate jobs
13 Jan 2009: Graduates lacking basic IT skills are putting themselves at a significant disadvantage in the jobs market has been claimed. The Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (AGCAS) says a competence with computers and IT software is becomingNational intern scheme to help graduates through the recession
10 Jan 2009: With the credit crisis causing thousands of job losses in white-collar professions, ministers are engaged in crisis talks with major employers in a bid to find posts for the 400,000 students due to graduate from universities this summer. In an interviewUnprecedented debt and no jobs for the class of 2008
04 Oct 2008: The class of 2008 faces unprecedented levels of debt and is struggling to find jobs as the credit crunch takes hold. Students who graduated from university this summer have apparently never have had it so bad. Many borrowed tens of thousands of pounds inFighting for an Education
01 Jul 2008: "I like to study, even though there is fighting everywhere in Mogadishu," says Bashir Gedi, a 15-year-old student in the Somalian capital. "Education is more important for me because if I can get an education, then I can help rebuild my country." SomaliaStanford campus in uproar over fellowship for Rumsfeld
22 Sep 2007: Academics and students at California's prestigious Stanford University have launched a vigorous protest against the appointment of Donald Rumsfeld as a visiting fellow to a right-wing campus think-tank, saying the former defence secretary and architect ofIsrael is academically boycotting Palestinians
11 Jun 2007: Wesam Madhoun, a Palestinian from Gaza, was delighted to learn that he had been granted an interview at Tel Aviv University to begin a doctorate in environmental science this autumn. But an Israeli army ban barring Gazan students from travelling toslashnews
CIA accused of ordering kidnap of former Pakistani spy
The wife of Khalid Khawaja claims that her husband, who was once a confidante of Osama bin Laden, was taken at the request of the American intelligence service as he travelled through Pakistan's lawless tribal belt. On Monday a group calling itself the
Yemen court upholds Israel spy's death sentence
A death sentence for a Yemeni man, Bassam Abdullah al-Haidari, convicted of spying for Israel has been upheld by an appeals court. In March 2009, a state security court sentenced the 27-year-old to death after convicting him of establishing contacts with
Mosque building brings Islamophobia fears to Poland
In a sight familiar in some west European countries but new to Poland, dozens of protesters demonstrated in a Warsaw suburb last weekend against the construction of a mosque. Plans by Poland's tiny Muslim community to build a place of worship and an
Puntland president meets with Ethiopian FM
The president of Somalia's Puntland State government Dr. Abdirahman Mohammed Farole has held meeting with Ethiopian Foreign Affairs Minister Seyoum Mesfin in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. The meeting which was held in Hotel Sharaton, where Puntland