BEIRUT — Students across the Middle East and globally are downing their pens, ditching class and joining in with pro-Palestinian protests in solidarity with a wave of campus protests that have swept across the United States in recent weeks.
From Kuwait to Lebanon, in Egypt and Ramallah, students have occupied central locations on campuses and waved placards Monday and Tuesday calling for an end to the war in Gaza and divestment by their universities from companies that do business with Israel.