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• No Co-Education for Al-Qaeda

  
  Crossroads Arabia — Authority: 482
  How can you tell when a reform is actually a reform? When Al-Qaeda condemns it! Agence France Presse reports that Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is condemning the co-educational nature of King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST). Al-Qaeda stands in shock and horror that women might actually be ...
  6 days ago

• ‘Nothing UnIslamic about Co-Education’

  
  Crossroads Arabia — Authority: 482
  The furor raised by Sheikh al-Shethri’s complaint about the co-educational nature of King Abdullah University of Science & Technology didn’t end just with his being removed from his official positions. Now, the Grand Mufti of Egypt and Sheikh Yousef Al-Qaradawi, a noted Saudi Egyptian conservative sheikh ...
  2 weeks ago

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• Video: KAUST architecture exhibits sustainability in a changing climate

  
  Green Diary — Authority: 440
  The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology at Thuwal in Rabigh, Saudi Arabia, is a pulsating specimen of unique eco-architecture. The campus design touts a gratifying blend of Islamic tradition and architectural modernity falling in line with the harsh climatic conditions of Saudi Arabia. Designed by Bill ...
  3 weeks ago

• Another Look at KAUST

  
  Crossroads Arabia — Authority: 482
  Abu Dhabi’s The National has an excellent piece on King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). The article notes the various ways the university differs not only from other Saudi universities, but from international universities as well, e.g. no tenure system and the lack of traditional academic ...
  3 weeks ago

• Education in the Arab World

  
  Crossroads Arabia — Authority: 482
  Economist takes a look at the sorry state of education in the Arab world. Income levels, whether as a national figure or per capita, don’t seem to have much bearing on the quality of education. Arab countries, the piece states, spend more on education, on average, than the rest of the world. The only place money ...
  3 weeks ago

• A New Era of Scientific Discovery

  
  Job Searching Blog — Authority: 124
  Saudi Arabia ’s economy has been inextricably linked to its oil reserves . Oil accounts for more than 90% of exports and nearly 75% of government  revenues in the country, thereby, facilitating the creation of a welfare state. However, during phases of low oil prices the Saudi Arabian government has faced its own ...
  4 weeks ago

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