Artificial Intelligence and the Knowledge Industry

Trouble viewing this email? View it online. Follow us on: Covering Education, Research and Culture Topics Countries Resources Scholarship finder Four Birzeit University students—Tasneem Abu Sobeih, Farah Obaidat, Cyrine Abu Rumaila, and Dina Al-Ghoul—celebrate after their graduation project won third place in a national competition focusing on issues of equality and women’s empowerment in Palestine. (Birzeit U.) Dear Reader, In our new newsletter, Al-Fanar Media brings you our most prominent stories and activities over the past two weeks. For us, January was filled with activities, events, and stories. Our activities included providing a specialised media training for executives of companies and institutions, titled “Media Training: New Concepts for Image Making”, and a media literacy training workshop for students from Egyptian and Arab universities, within the framework of the Media Literacy for Arab University Students Project, in cooperation with the Ford Foundation. This did not stop us engaging with higher education issues and the scientific research community in the Arab world. We presented a panel discussion titled “Arab Brain Drain: A Crisis from Within.” We also produced stories on a forum on the impact of artificial intelligence on the knowledge industry, held during the Cairo International Book Fair, and on how Arab institutions were observing the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. We also explored the stated reasons behind Texas A&M University’s controversial decision to close its Qatar campus, and Qatar Foundation’s response. We would like to invite you to participate in our next events in February. We will hold a panel discussion called “Arab Universities and Artificial Intelligence: Current Questions and Future Challenges.” Share with us your opinions about AI with us so we can present them to our distinguished guests. Until our next newsletter, stay safe. Best regards, The Editor Women and Girls in Science Day Prompts New Calls to Empower Women Arab Scientists Discuss How to Reduce the Arab Brain Drain Artificial Intelligence Will Not Beat Human Creativity, Egyptian Professor Says Participants Praise Al-Fanar Media’s First Media Literacy Workshop for University Students Texas A&M’s Decision to Close Qatar Branch Stirs Criticism and Questions The Latest of Opinion Doing Better Science by Including Local Researchers and Communities   Manaaki Scholarship for Graduate Study in New Zealand President’s Ph.D. Scholarships at Imperial College London Fulbright Foreign Student Programme for Master’s Degree Studies in the U.S. GSK Scholarships for Future Health Leaders, in London Belgium Master Mind Scholarships for Master’s Degree Study Topic of the Week Join a Panel Discussion on AI Challenges for Arab Universities Access all our articles about this subject. From Our Resources Quality Control in Arab Higher Education This resource, developed by AI-Fanar Media, provides detailed, country-specific information about how the quality of higher-education institutions is regulated and monitored in the Arab world. Copyright © 2024 Al Fanar Media, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email through your permission. Please send suggestions and comments to the editor. Did you receive this from a friend or colleague? Subscribe to the Al-Fanar Media Newsletter. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can unsubscribe from this list.

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