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Alya Ahmed Saif Al-Thani, Permanent Representative of the State of Qatar to the UN, speaking on behalf of the Gulf Cooperation Council, addresses the Security Council meeting on the situation in Yemen.

Qatar’s UN ambassador looks to break barriers

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A Palestinian woman, hoping to cross into Egypt, holds her son as they wait with others at the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip August 12, 2014. Under Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Cairo has secured closures on the Gaza border, increasing economic pressure on Hamas from a long-running Israeli blockade. Talks to end a month-long war between Israel and Islamist militants in Gaza have made no progress so far, an Israeli official said on Tuesday, as a 72-hour ceasefire in the

Asmaa al-Ghoul on why she writes

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Palestinian women walk in an alley in Shatila refugee camp near Beirut May 23, 2007. The Lebanese army is trying to crush Fatah al-Islam, a militant group led by a Palestinian but with little or no support among Lebanon's Palestinian refugee population of 400,000. Dozens of people have died in three days of fighting. REUTERS/Sharif Karim (LEBANON) - RTR1Q072

Florence Massena on why she writes

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A woman looks on as she sits amongst displaced people from the minority Yazidi sect, who fled violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjar, who are sleeping on the ground at Bajed Kadal refugee camp, southwest of Dohuk province August 23, 2014. REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS CONFLICT) - RTR43FCQ

Maya Gebeily on why she writes

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Palestinian boy Mohammed Wahdan, whom medics said was wounded in Israeli shelling, is held by his aunt as he receives psychological care at Shifa hospital in Gaza City August 14, 2014. In a ward at Shifa, Gaza's largest hospital, child therapist Rabeea Hamouda is trying to elicit a response from two small brothers, Omar and Mohammed, aged three and 18 months, hoping for some words or perhaps a smile. For seven straight minutes the children, peppered with burns and shrapnel wounds sustained in Israeli shelli

Rasha Abou Jalal on why she writes

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Lebanese news photographers work during a protest against the forced closure of media institutions on Friday by Hezbollah gunmen and its allies in Beirut May 10, 2008. The Shi'ite movement Hezbollah tightened its control of the Lebanese capital on Saturday in a show of force after it routed gunmen loyal to the western-backed government. REUTERS/Jamal Saidi (LEBANON) - RTX5JNR

Mona Alami on why she writes

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Have you considered an online degree?

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Palestinian students attend their graduation ceremony at the University College of Applied Sciences in Gaza City September 10, 2014. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA - Tags: EDUCATION) - RTR45QL9

Is a women’s college right for you?

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How to finance your education

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Saudi students attend a class at the Technology College in Riyadh in this October 30, 2010 file photo. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia sits on more than a fifth of the globe's oil reserves and thanks to high oil prices it has almost tripled its foreign assets to more than $400 billion since 2005. The region's thinkers had a profound influence on the evolving western science of the Middle Ages. But from kindergarten to university, its state education system has barely entered the modern age. Focused on religious

Arab universities chart new course: research and job training

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Gaber Gad Nassar (front row, C), president of Cairo University, poses with graduating Engineering students after an interview with Reuters in Cairo October 15, 2014. The government has tightened security at the university as it seeks to avert another year of unrest on university campuses, among the last bastions of protest and dissent in Egypt. Nassar denied the security measures were intended to restrict academic freedoms. Picture taken October 15. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany (EGYPT - Tags: EDUCATION

Higher education in the Middle East

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Gaber Gad Nassar (front row, C), president of Cairo University, poses with graduating Engineering students after an interview with Reuters in Cairo October 15, 2014. The government has tightened security at the university as it seeks to avert another year of unrest on university campuses, among the last bastions of protest and dissent in Egypt. Nassar denied the security measures were intended to restrict academic freedoms. Picture taken October 15. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany (EGYPT - Tags: EDUCATION

التعليم العالي في الشرق الأوسط

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