An academy suspends teaching at Taiz University in protest against its “militia” by the “Brotherhood”
English - Tuesday 23 February 2021 الساعة 03:25 pm
Taiz, News Yemen:
Dr. Mansour Al-Qudsi - Media Professor at the Media Department of the Faculty of Arts - Taiz University - announced the suspension of his teaching work for this semester. In protest against what he described as serious violations and gross violations of the simplest academic norms and the law of Yemeni universities that the Media Department of the Faculty of Arts at the university witnesses, and one of the results of which was the arbitrary measures taken by the Media Department against Dr. Aref Al-Atam last month.
In a briefing to his students in the media department of the university, Dr. Al-Qudsi stressed that the violations and abuses witnessed by the university have recently reached a level that cannot be tolerated .. and that he monitored them and submitted an official complaint to the university presidency, who was kindly directed to legal affairs to investigate it three weeks ago in the hope of putting an end to it.
In his briefing, which he posted on his Facebook page, he presented his apology to his students, stressing that he will not return to teaching until these serious imbalances and violations are addressed, expressing his apology for not showing them, in order to preserve the reputation and prestige of Taiz University and appreciation for its sacrifices that will not be allowed to treachery again.
In his briefing, Al-Qudsi expressed his surprise at putting his name down on the table despite the complaint submitted by him, offering his apology to the students, hoping to appreciate his decision after all his previous attempts to address the imbalances within the department had failed, including the advancement of the educational process and an end to non-academic interference in the educational process.
Al-Qudsi added: “Just as we decided previously to suspend our teaching work in the media department at Hudaydah University in opposition to the militarization of academic work and the educational process after the revolutionary gang leadership intervened to deny one of our students there from entering the final exams because of a post on his Facebook page, and other abuses and we paid a heavy price for our positions, starting from Threatening liquidation, attempting to arrest and forcibly displacing us in the city of Taiz, and then directing serious charges to us in order to take a decision that separates us and legitimize the storming and looting of our apartment in the university housing in the city of Hodeidah .. We are fully prepared to pay the price again, in refusal to politicize the academic work and the educational process in the media department at Taiz University. Politicization and politicization are criminal inside the university campus governed by sacred academic ethics and norms that rise to the sanctity of the university as a beacon to enlighten society in all its spectrums and components without discrimination or favoritism ... just as we have endured the intimidation campaigns in Al Hudaydah, we will endure any defamatory campaigns as a result of our position in Taiz.
And he went on to say: Yes, because of the war, we lost our salaries, our right and our family to live a decent life, but thanks to God we did not and will not lose our academic conscience. It is essential to preserving the dignity that remains for us, as academics, and is an essential entrance to protect our universities, on which we depend on saving what remains of our homeland in the coming days.
Dr. Al-Qudsi’s decision to apologize and protest and complain about the violations of the presidency of the university comes only about a month after the Department of Media at the College of Arts issued an arbitrary decision against Dr. Aref Al-Atam, a professor of media at the College of Arts, Taiz University, because of an old post that you monitored on his Facebook page .. which confirms the reality of injustice and abuse Who was subjected to acclamation.
The university’s arbitrary decision against Dr. Al-Atam, which was issued by the College of Arts - Taiz University, was met at that time with a wave of indignation, condemnation and widespread condemnation by the various Yemeni political, academic and media elites, who described him as wrong, unjust, politicized and logical, and was based on political considerations, stressing that it is a blatant transgression of all Academic regulations, laws and ethics in force in various universities of the world.
Social media sites were filled that day with hundreds of posts, tweets and thousands of comments denouncing and denouncing the decision, and demanding the presidency of Taiz University and the Deanship of the College of Arts quickly to reverse the decision, and to apologize to Dr. Aref Al-Atam, considering that the decision issued against him was based on flimsy political justifications instructed by political parties A discontent has nothing to do with the university or its academic work, which is a fatal mistake that harms the university and its academic staff, and distorts its reputation, history and pioneering role.
Academics, media professionals and activists considered that arbitrary decision as a major setback for Taiz University and its academic staff, as it revealed that the university is now affiliated with the Islah party, and is managed, managed and moved by a number of its military leaders, stressing that the Islah Party in Taiz exerted great pressure on the presidency of Taiz University and the Deanship of the College. Etiquette and the media department in it to terminate the contract with Dr. Aref Al-Atam under the pretext of “his criticism of some Brotherhood leaders in old publications on his Facebook page.”
