Farid Esack is a Koran scholar and Islamic liberation theologian from South Africa. He is one of the most renowned Islamic thinkers of our time. Claudia Mende spoke to him at the recent international "Horizons of Islamic Theology" conference in Frankfurt
Although there are no specific rules for the appointment of vice-chancellors (VCs) in public universities, there appears to be an unofficial yet mandatory criterion a teacher has to be affiliated with a pro-government teacher’s panel to be nominated for the top post.
Students of the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) in Sylhet, who have been holding protests and hunger strike programme demanding the resignation of the university’s Vice Chancellor Prof Farid Uddin Ahmed, today cut off the electricity connections of his official residence.