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The Transformation of Islamic Art during the Sunni Revival
The Transformation of Islamic Art during the Sunni Revival
The UK could have contained or even prevented disasters such as the BSE crisis if policy-makers had not dismissed expert scientific advice, Hugh Pennington argues. There is a paradox. The British...
The UK could have contained or even prevented disasters such as the BSE crisis if policy-makers had not dismissed expert scientific advice, Hugh Pennington argues. There is a paradox. The British...
Researchers are robbing the poor by keeping data out of the public domain, argues David Hulme Researchers from European and US universities are in effect stealing from the poor by holding on to data...
Brussels, 14 Nov 2002 Experts in science, technology, economics and law will explore the impact of genomics on society, and of society on genomics, at a new centre based at the University of...
The number of students leaving Britain's rainy shores to study at Australian universities has leapt by 44 per cent in the past year, new figures show. This year, 1,710 UK students opted for courses...
Earth has close shave from large asteroid An asteroid the size of a football pitch and large enough to raze a major city missed the Earth by just 75,000 miles last Friday, a distance considered to be...
To understand terrorism, we must get close to terrorists, says Rohan Gunaratna, who has talked with Tamil Tigers, drunk with IRA men and discussed the Koran with Taliban fighters In 1984 I...
Hassan Bouzidi's assessment of education in Morocco is gloomy (World View, THES, May 5). He says that more than half the population and 90 per cent of rural women are illiterate. But he does not...
Muslim charities provide extensive humanitarian aid but, writes Jonathan Benthall, critics accuse some of straying into terrorist territory. Birmingham-based Islamic Relief was one of the few aid...
Oxford clearly needs a Royal Commission, but attacking the college system is barking up the wrong tree. A worse problem in Oxford, one not shared with Cambridge, is the dismal state of the non-...
The insistence of the old Soviet regime that it approve any new university programmes no longer hangs heavily on a rejuvenated Far Eastern State University. President Vladimir Kurilov's Vladivostok...
Olga Wojtas talks to the Scots academic recently freed from an Indonesian jail. Lesley McCulloch, the Scots-born academic released from an Indonesian jail earlier this month, could have been free in...
Jet lag can prompt relapses of psychotic disorders and could trigger new cases in predisposed individuals. A study of 152 foreign tourists admitted to the Kfar Shaul Mental Health Centre in Jerusalem...
Libya has entrusted the largest treasure trove of ancient Roman coins ever found, more than 100,000 items, to the Italian National Research Council for restoration and study. The Libyan antiquities...