Art History Professor Fired for Showing a Painting of Prophet Muhammad
Hamline University || Photo credit: NYT At the end of the Fall 2022 academic term, Hamline University, a liberal arts college in...
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Ebby Abramson
- Nov 18, 2021
- 4 min
PEN America Report Exposes Dangers of Educational Gag Orders
A disturbing number of legislative efforts to limit teaching and studying racism, sexism, and American history represent systematic...
Ebby Abramson
- Feb 16, 2021
- 2 min
Over 130 Scholars Sign Petition that Calls for Ending Harassment of Teng Biao
Over 130 scholars signed a petition organized by Endangered Scholars Worldwide, which condemned the daily public harassment of the...
Dolunay Bulut
- Aug 16, 2020
- 2 min
NASA Scientist Returned to the US After Four Years of Imprisonment
Serkan Golge, a 40-year old NASA scientist who was arrested in Turkey shortly after the failed coup attempt in July 2016, safely returned...
Ebby Abramson
- Jul 10, 2020
- 2 min
‘Disturbing and Cruel.’ ESW Condemns New Visa Rule for International Students
On July 7, 2020, Endangered Scholars Worldwide learned that this fall, foreign students attending colleges and universities in the US...
Ebby Abramson
- Jun 18, 2020
- 1 min
US Supreme Court Rules against Trump Administration in Decision to end DACA
With a great relief we announce that, The US Supreme Court ruled on Thursday June 18, 2020 that the Deferred Action for Childhood...
Ebby Abramson
- Jun 17, 2020
- 1 min
ESW Statement of Solidarity with the Black Lives Matter Movement
Endangered Scholars Worldwide (ESW) decries the discrimination and structural racism directed against the Black community. We believe...
Ebby Abramson
- Jan 29, 2020
- 6 min
“I Have Lost Everything”: Iranian Students with Valid Visas Sent Home Upon Arrival at US Airports
Last September, Reihana Emami Arandi boarded a flight from Tehran and made her way to Boston, eager to study theology at an Ivy League...
Ebby Abramson
- Jan 23, 2020
- 2 min
Another Iranian Student Deported from Boston Despite Court Order
On January 20, 2020, US Customs and Border Protection (CPB) officials at Logan International Airport denied entry to an Iranian national...
Ebby Abramson
- Dec 10, 2019
- 2 min
Xiyue Wang Released from Iranian Jail in Prisoner Swap
We welcome the news that on December 6, 2019, XiYue Wang, a 37-year-old US citizen of Chinese descent who has been imprisoned in Iran...
Ebby Abramson
- Sep 6, 2019
- 2 min
Palestinian Freshman Previously Barred Entry into US Arrives at Harvard
Harvard freshman Ismail B. Ajjawi, 23, who United States border officials turned away thirteen days ago, arrived on campus Monday in time...
Ebby Abramson
- Apr 9, 2019
- 2 min
Rob Quinn on Executive Order on Campus Free Speech
On March 21, President Trump signed an executive order titled “Improving Free Inquiry, Transparency, and Accountability at Colleges and...
Ebby Abramson
- Oct 23, 2017
- 2 min
EPA Keeps Scientists From Speaking About Report on Climate
The US Environmental Protection Agency has blocked three scheduled discussions of climate change by agency scientists at a conference on...
Ebby Abramson
- Oct 12, 2017
- 4 min
Another NYU Professor Comes Forward with Claims of Discrimination at NYUAD
In a letter addressed to President Andrew Hamilton and members of the NYU Abu Dhabi administration, 10 NYU professors called for greater...
Ebby Abramson
- Sep 18, 2017
- 3 min
"He’s Doing Poorly," Says Wife of Princeton Student Jailed in Iran
Iran’s imprisonment of Xiyue Wang, a naturalized United States citizen from China who is a PhD candidate in history at Princeton...
Ebby Abramson
- Sep 6, 2017
- 2 min
Endangered Scholars Worldwide Statement on the Decision to End DACA
On September 5, 2017, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA) is being...
Ebby Abramson
- Jul 17, 2017
- 2 min
Iran Sentences Princeton Graduate Student to 10 Years for Espionage
An Iranian court has sentenced an American graduate student to 10 years in prison for spying, the judiciary’s official news agency...
Ebby Abramson
- Jun 29, 2017
- 6 min
Turkish Scholars in the US Face a Difficult Decision on Speaking Out
Henri J. Barkey, a Turkish professor of international relations at Lehigh University, will no longer board a flight that passes over the...
Ebby Abramson
- May 14, 2017
- 2 min
North Korea Arrests US Professor Charged with Being “Hostile to the State”
North Korea arrests another professor from the US over charges of allegedly being hostile to the state. Professor Kim Hak Song was...
Ebby Abramson
- Jan 30, 2017
- 3 min
NYU PhD Student Narges Bayani Detained At JFK
Narges Bayani, a PhD student at NYU’s Institute for the Study Of The Ancient World, was among those detained at JFK. According to a...
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