SAR in the Press

The following includes select interviews, articles, and op-eds by or about Scholars at Risk and its network.

Tufts Offers Haven for Scholars at Risk
Tufts Offers Haven for Scholars at Risk | March 1, 2023 — Tufts has hosted international academics in peril before. But the university had never supported four such scholars at once—until this year. […] That didn’t mean solely funding more fellows.

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Yale expands efforts to protect scholars at risk
February 7, 2023 — Yale is expanding its Scholars at Risk program, which welcomes scholars facing dangerous conditions worldwide to campus so they can continue their work. “In a demonstration of its commitment to academic freedom, Yale will enhance and

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New calls to expand Afghan scholarships
There should be an immediate expansion of international scholarships for Afghans, a leading academic rights organisation has said, following the Taliban’s decision to ban women from Afghanistan’s universities. […] Scholars at Risk, which advocates for academic freedom, said the move

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A Voice for the Hazara People
As a scholar of private law with over a decade of experience, Prof. Dr. Adbullah Shafaee conducts research on family law, constitutional law, property law, Islamic law, and women’s law, among others, and has been involved in drafting and amending

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Afghan chemists are afraid and uncertain
“Afghan chemists are afraid and uncertain.” A piece by Andrea Widener for Chemical and Engineering News. A year ago, women chemists in Afghanistan were excited about the future. Young girls had started to think they didn’t have to be teachers

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Helping at-risk scholars
A piece by Iryna Zenyuk, for UCI News.  Reflections from Iryna Zenyuk, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering Feb. 24, 2022, was a regular day in the lab for me, with a proposal review panel and meetings – nothing extraordinary.

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In search of a research haven
  A piece by Michele Catanzaro for Nature.  From Syria to Ukraine, Italian universities have set up projects to host displaced scholars. Now they need to look beyond the emergency and offer systematic solutions, experts say. In Trento, Ghanya Al-Naqueb extracts

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