Syrian Jews living in Syria & USA proud to be ‘Yehudi Arabi’

Posted on October 25, 2009 by 50% Syrian

 

Jews in Syria are an integrated community. In our last September issue, you have Syrian Jews and Palestians speaking about co-habitation in Syria, while Syrian Jews living in the US confessing to feelings of pride stemming from the fact they are “Yehudi-Arabi”. Photo by Carole al-Farah, Forward Magazine (Damascus, Syria)

Syrian Jews living in Syria and [...]

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Syrian students banned from using supercomputer at KAUST University in Saudi Arabia

Posted on October 19, 2009 by 50% Syrian

Syrian students denied academic access to IBM supercomputer at KAUST due to US sanctions

Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) honors US political restrictions over internationally-set academic freedoms and integrity

Damascus (October, 2009) –  The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), the new world-class research university in Saudi Arabia, has denied [...]

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