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csherro2

My Arab Spring: Egypt's silent protest - 0 views

www.aljazeera.com/...t-protest-160124101244868.html

egypt War revolution arab spring

shared by csherro2 on 29 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • csherro2 on 29 Mar 16
     
    In June 2010, Khaled Said, a young Egyptian citizen of Alexandria, was beaten to death by plain-clothes police officers outside a local internet cafe. At the time, the Ministry of Interior said he died of asphyxiation caused by swallowing a bag of narcotics, but a picture of Said's battered face began circulating online.
blantonjack

ISIS' finances are taking a serious hit, and it's hurting morale inside the terror group - 0 views

www.businessinsider.com/isis-finances-declining-2016-4

ISIS war Money America

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  • blantonjack on 05 Apr 16
     
    As a US-led coalition hammers ISIS' oil infrastructure and other financial institutions in the Middle East, the terror group has cut salaries and infighting has broken out within the rank and file and senior leadership. Some units pay has been cut in half, and others are not even being paid. This is causing more in house fighting between the higher ups, which is crippling the ISIL units in general
sambofoster

In Egypt, treading the path of civil rights - 0 views

articles.baltimoresun.com/...ers-egypt-s-muslim-brotherhood

Egypt Civil Rights Women

shared by sambofoster on 08 Apr 16 - No Cached
  • sambofoster on 08 Apr 16
     
    These opportunities come once in a generation, social movements whose cause is so manifestly just, and whose potential is so transformative, that they rise above the clutter of ordinary politics. The civil rights movement led by Martin Luther King, Cesar Chavez and others inspired a generation as it overcame Klansmen, brutal sheriffs and growers' thugs.
mcooka

Cost-Sharing: A Threat to Higher Education in Morocco - 0 views

www.moroccoworldnews.com/...to-higher-education-in-morocco

education morocco middle east higher

shared by mcooka on 07 Apr 16 - No Cached
  • Cost-sharing is a “shift of the burden of higher education costs from being totally borne by the government or the taxpayer, to being shared with parents and students”
  • After the introduction of the open access policy, which guarantees education for all as one of the tenets of social justice, the pressure of student numbers that result from population growth led the government to introduce more stringent selection procedures
  • After the introduction of the open access policy, which guarantees education for all as one of the tenets of social justice, the pressure of student numbers that result from population growth led the government to introduce more stringent selection procedures
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  • Cost-sharing is a “shift of the burden of higher education costs from being totally borne by the government or the taxpayer, to being shared with parents and students”
  • This raises the  question, to what extent can this cost-sharing policy preserve equity in enrollment and improve the quality of higher education in Morocco? The obvious answer is that this policy is causing more harm to Moroccan higher education.
  • mcooka on 07 Apr 16
     
    Morocco is starting to shift the burden of paying for higher education from the government onto the families attending through "cost sharing". This is essentially harmful to the quality of education in Morocco as the costs of education going up. Now students who earn grants and scholarships are going to be more regulated to prove their worth is here.
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