Voices of the Middle East and North Africa

Assault On Higher Education In Turkey & The Global Campaign To Free Iranian Human Rights Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh

On January 1, 2021, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced his appointment of a new rector at Isatnbul’s Boğaziçi University, one of Turkey’s most prestigious universities. The appointment trampled  a long-standing tradition of electing rectors from within the university. In the second part of their interview  Ayça Alemdaroğlu and  Elif Babül discuss the context for the … Continued


Voices of the Middle East and North Africa

Assault On Higher Education in Turkey

On January 1, 2021, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced his appointment of Melih Bulu, a long-time affiliate of the ruling Justice and  Development Party (AKP), as the new rector of Isatnbul’s Boğaziçi University, one of Turkey’s most prestigious universities. The appointment trampled  a long-standing tradition of electing rectors from within the university. Three days later, … Continued


In his acclaimed new book “When we Were Arabs,” Los-Angeles-born journalist and author Massoud Hayoun recounts one north African family’s epic journey, step by step, from Tunisia all the way to California after it was senselessly uprooted from its ancestral lands and catapulted into a cold new world by two successive waves of European colonialism.


In his acclaimed new book “When we Were Arabs,” Los-Angeles-born journalist and author Massoud Hayoun recounts one north African family’s epic journey, step by step, from Tunisia all the way to California after it was senselessly uprooted from its ancestral lands and catapulted into a cold new world by two successive waves of European colonialism.