The New York Times: Purge of Iranian Universities Is Feared
CAIRO — As Iran’s universities prepare to start classes this month, there is growing concern within the academic community that the government will purge political and social science departments of professors and curriculums deemed “un-Islamic,” according to academics and political analysts inside and outside Iran.
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The Chronicle: One Man’s War on the Taliban
A retired Canadian judge announced last month that he was “retaliating” against the Taliban by seeking to prevent students of “Islamic background” from receiving scholarships endowed in his name.
Paul I.B. Staniszewski told the television network CTV that he had asked the University of Windsor and York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School to make such students ineligible for his scholarships.
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