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As the first in her family to attend university, Dr. Encieh Erfani was drawn to the stars. Her inter
Omar Mohammed first gained international prominence in 2014 as the anonymous blogger “Mosul Eye”, ri
Free to Think speaks with Dr. Khoo Ying Hooi, an Associate Professor at the University of Malaya and
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Emma Hartley and Jonathan Gelfond, undergraduates at UC Santa Barbara in California, weren’t sure if
Free to Think speaks with Shai Reshef, President of the University of the People, the first non-pro
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On January 21st, police forcibly entered the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima, Peru,
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Free to Think talks with Roya Hakakian, a writer and founding member of the Iran Human Rights Docume
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