February 24, 2006

U.S. Professor Is Fired Over Cartoons by University in United Arab Emirates

By KATHERINE ZOEPF

An American professor teaching in the United Arab Emirates was fired this month after she showed her students caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that have infuriated Muslims around the world, local newspapers reported.

Claudia Kiburz, who taught English at Zayed University, a women's institution in Dubai, shared the cartoons with her students as part of a class discussion about freedom of expression, the news reports said.

The cartoons originally appeared in a Danish newspaper