The Daily Aztec

The International Youth and Students for Social Equality at San Diego State held an event on Thursday to mark the 15-year anniversary of the World Socialist Web Site, an international online news and information center. With an international daily readership of 40,000 to 50,000, the WSWS is financed by its readers’ donations to help improve [...]

As part of a series of events from the “International Speaker Forum,” the San Diego State International Student Center hosted a speaker event called “A Conversation on Middle East Conflicts’’ on Tuesday. The purpose of the forum was to enhance global learning and development through discussion and dialogue. Among Tuesday’s speakers were nuclear engineer Mehdi [...]

The U.S. Embassy in Ankara, Turkey was attacked by a suicide blast on Friday. The bomber killed himself  and a Turkish security guard and injured three other people. Turkish officials identified the suicide bomber as 40-year-old Ecevit Sanli, a member of an outlawed leftist-extremist group called Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front, which was responsible for attacking [...]

After securing a second term in the White House, President Barack Obama will become the first U.S. President to visit Myanmar, also known as Burma, the White House announced last Thursday.

The Jewish Studies Program at San Diego State presented a musical event on Oct. 17 called , “The Songs of Sarajevo: Music of the Jews, Muslims and Christians,” showing music has the power to connect people despite religious and cultural differences.

Gov. Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 1955 last week, requiring California State University to designate a senior administrator as a liaison to prevent violence and ensure safety between protesting students and campus police.

Center for Islamic and Arabic Studies members and professors at San Diego State analyzed the viral protests across the world against the amateur anti-Islam film “Innocence of Muslims” that portrays and mocks the Prophet Muhammad.

As the 2012 U.S. presidential election approaches facts are spun left and right, especially after the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, that it can be hard to verify the candidates claims.

Harvard University’s reputation was threatened last week, when dozens of students were suspected of cheating on a take-home exam.

Global food prices rose 10 percent in July because of severe droughts in both the U.S. and Eastern Europe, threatening the world’s poor, according to the World Bank Group’s latest Food Price Watch report.

The school year is reaching its end for San Diego State students, however this season also marks a new beginning for Storm and Nasatir Hall, both of which will be reconstructed and renovated.

University of Hawaii at Manua professor James D. Frankel visited San Diego State on Tuesday to lecture about a special topic: Chinese Islam.