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...With reporting by Shah Mahmoud Barakzai / Kabul and Muhib Habibi / Kandahar
...from living in campus dormitories, subjecting to disciplinary hearings or outright suspending or expelling. Advar News, a student news agency, claimed that 50 students at University of Tehran - which was the epicenter of not only this summer's protests but also demonstrations that led to the fall of the Shah 30 years ago - were recently forced to defend themselves for hours in front of a disciplinary committee. "I am tired of going to university, which always looks like a prison," says a young woman who was suspended for the coming term from Allameh Tabataba'i University in Tehran. "Every...
...breaks down “hardcore science” to explain it in a novel, engaging way. “He believes you should only do science if you enjoy it or not do it at all,” she said. —Staff writer Huma N. Shah can be reached at hshah@fas.harvard.edu...
...Camp Ashraf, some 40 miles north of Baghdad, is the base for the controversial People's Mujahedin Organization of Iran, also known as the MEK. A formerly-armed group that critics say resembles a cult, the MEK helped overturn the Shah in 1979, but in the '80s clashed with former Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini and fled Iran. Saddam Hussein let the exiles set up bases in Iraq - Camp Ashraf is the last standing - and gave the group arms and training to help him fight his war with Iran...
...Staff writer Huma N. Shah can be reached at hshah@fas.harvard.edu...