In 2004 the American University in Cairo (AUC) caused a similar stir after a decree prohibiting the entry of students wearing the niqab into the university campus.

I was 14, and I emailed professors at the local university to see if maybe I could go work in their lab. And hardly anyone responded.

Allowing the niqab in academic institutions can cause problems, he added, since anyone can use it as a disguise to enter the university, even terrorists.

Each year, Sheikh Nahayan, the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, as well as Chancellor of the UAE University, comes to give his opening address, and the red carpet is literally rolled out.

Well, our research my generation for sure, people who were going to school in the late '60s made very much a shift out of the internal focus of architecture, looking at architecture within its own territory, and we were much more affected by film, by what was going on in the art world, etc.

Iranian President,Mahmoud Ahmadineajd s speech at Columbia University in New York and university president Lee C. Bollinger s criticism and tough words during his introduction remarks on Monday 24 September have become a hot topic in media throughout the world.

A religious student in Madresyeh Ma wrote an open letter to Ahmadinejad and criticized his speech at Columbia. The blogger tells the Iranian president that he may think he was successful at Columbia, but that ihs presence provided an opportunity for Columbia's University president to insult him, which is an insult to all Iranians.