Syria's Idlib University bans mixed-gender online groups

Idlib University, managed by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s government in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib, issued a decision banning mixed-gender groups on social media, causing uproar and division among students.
Syrians attend the screening of the Oscar-nominated film "Last Men in Aleppo" at the University of Idlib in the country's rebel-held province, Idlib, Syria, Feb. 12, 2018.
Syrians attend the screening of the Oscar-nominated film "Last Men in Aleppo" at the University of Idlib in the rebel-held province of Idlib, Syria, Feb. 12, 2018. - Omar Haj Kadour/AFP via Getty Images
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Sultan al-Kanj
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IDLIB, Syria — Idlib University, which is run by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s Syrian Salvation Government in the northwestern province of Idlib, recently banned mixed-gender education groups on social media.

The university’s administration said in a circular that was widely available on social media June 10 that the creation of social media rooms for mixed-gender students including on Facebook, WhatsApp and Telegram, is strictly forbidden.

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