Dozens of Cairo University students, faculty members and medical staff protested on Sunday against a ban on wearing niqab, both on campus and at university-affiliated medical centers. Although the demonstration…
Egypt’s academic community has been fighting intervention by security bodies into academic life since former President Hosni Mubarak. Many scholars have voiced major concerns over the state’s tight grip on…
The contract of professor at Cairo's German University was terminated because they deemed his students' works immoral.
Cairo University has reversed its earlier decision to cancel faculty of arts Assistant Professor Kholoud Saber’s sabbatical, Saber reported on her Facebook…
The Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE) issued a statement warning of the growing restrictions on academic freedom and independence…
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has issued a decree mandating the punitive measures that can be taken against university professors found guilty of involvement…
«Ten years ago, Egypt’s President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi was a foreign student at the US Army War College. In writing a short report entitled “Democracy in…»
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