Sentence examples for shiite student from inspiring English sources

Duaa, a 22-year-old Shiite student who did not want to give her family name, said: "There is no trust anymore between them and us.

As Shiite student unions gained prominence, other students at the University of Baghdad began watching them warily, fearing they might try to impose hard-line religious practices.

On a recent afternoon a pile of white religious pamphlets sat on a table in the gloomy main hall of the Shiite student union.

MANAMA, BAHRAIN — Mohammed Ibrahim, 19, a Shiite student at the University of Bahrain, says he has gotten used to the tear gas the police use to disperse protests, which he and his friends attend every Friday.

"I had many Shiite student friends who used to come to my house even for a meal," said Khalid Ali al-Sardi, a student, "and then all of the sudden some of them went after me and nearly killed me".

"We want the whole faculty to change from a dictatorial age to an age of freedom," said Ali abdul-Jabar, a petroleum engineering student and senior member of the new Shiite student union.

They are widely feared, even by Shiite students.

Now he is back in school, but the situation between Shiite students like him and Sunni students is very "tense," he said.

Zehra and her friends are among about 500 mainly Shiite students who were expelled from the university last year after clashes between pro- and anti-government demonstrators.

It is under the sway of an armed group of violent Shiite students in engineering, literature, law and other disciplines; faculty members; and campus security guards.

Fifty Shiite students wearing the white robes of would-be suicide bombers ceremonially kissed the hand of Sheikh Mahmud al-Hassani at Baghdad's Sadr City, pledging to obey him.