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CAIRO — Muslims in the US city of New York are campaigning to add two of their holiest days on public schools’ holiday calendar just as schools do for Christians and Jews, pledging to take the case to the political arena in a battle with the mayor who adamantly opposes the idea.

BRASILIA — When Munir Hamdan grew thirstier for more information about his Muslim faith, he decided to resort to the most obvious source of knowledge; his school.

BAGHDAD— Iraq is planning to send thousands of its students to compete their advanced studies in universities around the world, with the hope of breathing new life into the country’s once-respected education system that was crushed under the sanctions and then invasion.

8.8.09 - School courses on religion are a thorny issue in the former Soviet Union where atheism was a state ideology.

MINGORA — Schools reopened Saturday, August 1, in Pakistan's restive Swat Valley after a four-month closure over the deadly fighting between security forces and Taliban militants.

7.22.09 - CAIRO — Formerly atheist, currently secular Russia is embarking on the first national plan to teach major religions in its schools, blunting opposition from by offering a secular ethics course as an alternative.

July 11, 2009 - CAIRO – Plans by the Malaysian government to use the local Malay language instead of English in teaching science and math is sparking a hot debate in the southeast Asian Muslim country.

CAIRO – Dr. Nadia El-Awady, former managing editor of IslamOnline.net's Health & Science Section, has become the first Muslim woman to lead the World Federation of Science Journalists (WFSJ).

SRINAGAR — Arshad Ahmed did not think twice when he decided to complete his studies. He joined Darasgah-e-Islamia Janipora Jammu, one of the Islamic schools thriving in the Muslim-majority Himalayan region of Kashmir.