Presidential forces, let's hope that the university will find its place at the very first rank of priority, urgent, and imperative subjects. Selection in the first year, increase in fees, autonomy of resources, de-unionization of boards of directors and recruitment commissions, the list is long of inflammable reforms. But one of the most worrying subjects right now is the danger that hangs over academic freedom. No wonder that. Universities have always been the main battleground for ideological wars all over the world. In Arab countries, Muslim fundamentalists have infiltrated campuses at lightning speed. The interview given to
Figaro
, by the Palestinian-born American scholar Lama Abu-Odeh, professor of law at Georgetown, gave the chilling account.
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