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2 weeks ago | 
universityworldnews.com | Paul Cochrane
UAE
Enrolment in private higher education institutions in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), reached a record high this academic year and is expected to increase next year. This success has been driven by the Emirates’ reputation for safety, flexible visa regulations, governmental support and forward-looking academic programmes. For the 2024 to 2025 academic year, 42,026 students enrolled at 41 private higher education institutions in Dubai, of which 37 are international campuses.
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3 weeks ago | 
universityworldnews.com | Paul Cochrane
MIDDLE EAST-GLOBAL
Academic freedom and knowledge production are under intense pressure in the Arab region and the diaspora due to ongoing regional conflicts, funding cuts, and pressure from Western donors and governments. What institutions can do to safeguard academic freedom was the focus of a recent roundtable in Lebanon.
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Mar 18, 2025 | 
agbi.com | Paul Cochrane
SPECIAL REPORT Trade Egypt's portfolio of multilateral trade deals includes the largest continental free trade agreement in the world. We look at how it can do more business in Africa – a market of 1.5 billion people In association with Egypt has a significant trade advantage over the rest of Africa.
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Mar 13, 2025 | 
just-style.com | Laura Husband |Paul Cochrane
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Feb 10, 2025 | 
universityworldnews.com | Paul Cochrane
MIDDLE EAST
The conflicts in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria have been disastrous for higher education, with hundreds of thousands of students affected by disruption to their studies, infrastructural damage to centres of learning, and the psychological toll of war.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
universityworldnews.com | Paul Cochrane
PALESTINE
Over and above those tragically killed, as many as 90,000 students in the Gaza Strip have lost access to higher education as a result of Israel’s ongoing military attacks on universities that started in October 2023, according to a senior West Bank university official.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
universityworldnews.com | Paul Cochrane
LEBANON
The two-month long Israeli military attacks on Lebanon – an escalation of a year-long conflict between Israel and Lebanese Shia militant group Hezbollah – has hit the country’s higher education sector hard. The impact is all the worse given that Lebanon’s universities and colleges have been struggling with financial and economic problems for five years.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
counterpunch.org | Paul Cochrane
A lot of people on the planet are praying for the Second Coming – Messianic Christians awaiting Jesus and Muslims for the Mahdi to return. Tariq Mehmood is not among that crowd. Instead he spends a lot of time imagining and discussing possible futures.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
peateasea.de | Paul Cochrane
Not a real dinosaur and not real poetry. Just me updating my Python projectsetup knowledge. The new1 way,A dino jumps:Splash!I’m a bit of a dinosaur. Well, I feel like one at times. I mean, I’ve beenusing Python since version 1.5 and that makes me feel old. Also, up untilrecently, I didn’t know that poetry was abig thing in the Python world for project dependencymanagement.2 The things ya learn.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
polymerspaintcolourjournal.com | Paul Cochrane |Dhanya Jagannivasan
The paint markets of the Levant – Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Palestine (now recognised by the UN as a state, even though it has no unified governance) – are all reeling from ongoing conflict and economic instability. The more developed and export-orientated markets of Lebanon and Israel are however releasing new innovative paint products.
