April 14, 2006

Universities for Women Push Borders in Persian Gulf

By KATHERINE ZOEPF

Single-sex institutions give students new freedom, but within cultural limits

In early February, during the international uproar over caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad published in a Danish newspaper, a women's college here, Zayed University, announced that it had fired an American professor for distributing copies of the cartoons to her students.

The dismissal created a stir on Internet discussion forums and among bloggers, some of whom wrote that a commitment to academic