{"id":129936,"date":"2018-03-27T15:23:09","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T17:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=129936"},"modified":"2018-03-27T16:50:36","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T18:50:36","slug":"harvard-offers-free-courses-arab-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/harvard-offers-free-courses-arab-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard offers free courses on the Arab world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Harvard University is offering online free courses on the Arab culture. There are two on Islamism (one of them is part of a broader course on religions) and one on the Egyptian pyramids. The content of these classes are available in English.<\/p>\n<p>To view the classes, the user must register in the distance learning platform <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edx.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong style=\"font-style: inherit;\">EdX<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s website, which offers free content from many universities across the world and in many different languages.<\/p>\n<p>Besides Harvard, EdX offers many free materials on the Arab culture, made available by other universities across the world. Among them, American university Notre Dame, for instance, offers the course <em>Introduction to the Quran: The Scripture of Islam<\/em>; meanwhile, Egyptian Bibliotheca Alexandrina offers the courses <em>Ancient Egyptian Civilization<\/em>, <em>The Legacy of Islamic Civilization<\/em> and <em>The Journey of Writing and Scripts in Egypt<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Amnesty International offers the free course Human Rights: The Rights of Refugees \u2013 available in English, French and Spanish, among other relevant courses on Human Rights; and The Islamic Research and Training Institute offers free courses on Islamic Economy.<\/p>\n<p>For further information and to watch the classes, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edx.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.edx.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by S\u00e9rgio Kakitani<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American university has an online platform that offers free distance learning courses on many themes, among them, courses on Islamism and the Egyptian pyramids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2305,"featured_media":129901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[422,424,425,421,426,427,423,428,160,402],"class_list":{"0":"post-129936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-culture","8":"tag-arab","9":"tag-courses","10":"tag-education","11":"tag-egypt","12":"tag-free","13":"tag-islamism","14":"tag-online-course","15":"tag-pyramids","16":"tag-arabe-en","17":"tag-harvard"},"wps_subtitle":"The American university has an online platform that offers free distance learning courses on many themes, among them, courses on Islamism and the Egyptian pyramids. ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}