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[Editor’s Note: Following is a press release by the Indian Youth for Palestine (IYP).] The Indian Youth for Palestine (IYP), in collaboration with the  Centre for West Asian Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, observed Palestine Solidarity Week  on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012, at the Dayar-e-Mir Taqi Mir Building, JMI.   Students from the Centre for West Asian Studies, Center for Conflict ...

According to an article titled “Jamia to confer doctorate on Aung San Suu Kyi” in the IndiaEducationReview.com dated Jan. 30, 2012 — Jamia plans to confer an honorary doctorate to Myanmar’s noted political leader Aung San Suu Kyi for her over two-decade fight for democracy in the country. The Vice Chancellor, Najeeb Jung, is quoted to have said: “We at Jamia ...

[Editor’s Note: Following is a Jamia Press Release.] On Monday, January 30, 2012, Nasreen Munni Kabir delivered the Annual Anwar Jamal Kidwai Memorial Lecture to a packed auditorium in Jamia Millia Islamia. Based in London, Kabir’s body of work over 30 years include TV programmes for Channel 4, documentaries and books that have preserved the legacy of Indian cinema and ...

Hamidur Rahman, a B.A. final year student in the department of political science, has decided to withdraw his legal petition against Jamia from the Delhi High Court.   In an interview with Jamia Journal, Rahman said that he had filed a petition in the Delhi High Court on Tuesday, Jan 24, 2012, demanding a directive from the court for the ...

A written statement to the press by the Forum for Student Democracy (FSD) — of which Afroz Alam Sahil is the convener — states that in a meeting with the Vice Chancellor, held on January 27, Sahil has offered an “unconditional apology” to Jamia for his statement made on TV, accusing Jamia of embezzling funds meant for the victims of ...

Elections in the Jamia Boys’ Hostel was held on January, 22, 2012. Students vying for the posts of Senior House Monitor and Food Monitor contested and the following were elected as per their hostels of residence: Allamma Iqbal Hostel: Food Monitor – Mohd. Shahid Senior House Monitor – Mohd. Faraz Obaidullah Sindhi Hostel & SRK (New) Hostel: Senior House Monitor ...

Controversy has been dogging Salman Rushdie and his book “Satanic Verses” since the time the book was published. And again on the eve of Jaipur Literature Festival this month, it initiated a debate within various social, political and literary circles, as some Muslim organizations and clerics voiced their protest against the invitation of Rushdie for the festival. When, on January ...

In a press release from Afroz Alam Sahil, who is an RTI activist, a journalist, the convener for the Forum for Students Democracy (FSD) and an MPhil student who had quit Jamia late last year in protest over the invitation of  Lt. Governor of Delhi,Tejender Khanna, as the chief guest for a convocation ceremony at Jamia — claims that a ...

The former prime minster of Afghanistan, Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai, spoke with students at the department of political science on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012. About the Speaker According to Wikipedia, during the presidential tenure of Burhanuddin Rabbani, Mr. Ahmadzai served as the acting prime minister of Afghanistan between 1995-96. He even unsuccessfully ran as an independent candidate in the 2004 Afghan ...

The Department of Political Science on Monday, Jan. 16, 2012, organized a talk by Prof. James Manor, a renowned professor from London, on the topic, “The Best & the worst of Indian State.” About the Speaker James Manor teaches at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. After completing his BA degree from Yale Unversity, he got a D.Phil ...