May 30, 2008
Censorship and Security Agents Pervade Egypt's Universities
On Ahmad Arafa's tidy desk in the south Cairo suburb of Hilwan sits what might be the most controversial master's dissertation in Egypt today, bound in green, collecting dust and waiting to be defended.
Four years ago, one of Mr. Arafa's two supervisors abruptly announced that she would refuse to referee the work's defense, declaring that his linguistic analysis of the language used in the Koran went against both "the grain and the spirit of Islam."
"She said that I was actually
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