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The Capture of Turkey’s Universities Under the AKP
Students at Istanbul University protest in support of Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, whose diploma was canceled and who was then detained on March 21, 2025. A banner and placards proclaim, “the university does not bow down” and “there is no liberation alone.” Berkman Ulutin/dia images via Getty Images
Academic Freedom

The Capture of Turkey’s Universities Under the AKP

Ayça Alemdaroğlu • 11 min read
Student Protest and the Politics of Palestine in Egypt
Egyptian students from Alexandria University take part in a demonstration, October 18, 2023, denouncing the killing of hundreds of Palestinians in an Israeli strike on a hospital in Gaza. Hazem Gouda/AFP via Getty Images
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Student Protest and the Politics of Palestine in Egypt

Sean Lee, Mostafa Hefny • 13 min read
The Palestine Test for German Universities
Police at the Freie Universität Berlin (FUB) on May 7, 2024, cordon off students as they demonstrate against Israel's war in Gaza and the university dismantles their protest tent camp in a campus courtyard. Tobias Schwarz/AFP via Getty Images

The Palestine Test for German Universities

Jannis Julien Grimm, Lilian Mauthofer • 14 min read