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...
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Bogazici University Academics
Nov 3, 20214 min read
Boğaziçi University Call for Solidarity: Beginning the 2021 Academic Year Under Assault
As the government assault on Boğaziçi University continues to escalate, Boğaziçi faculty penned a letter printed below summarizing the...
Dolunay Bulut
Oct 27, 20212 min read
Boğaziçi Campus Raided by Riot Police
The tension between the student protesters and the appointed rector of Turkey’s prestigious Boğaziçi University continues to escalate. On...
Ebby Abramson
Sep 29, 20212 min read
Imprisoned Bahraini Scholar goes on Hunger Strike
Endangered Scholars Worldwide recently learned that on July 8, 2021, 59-year-old Abduljalil Al-Singace, former head of the Department of...
Ebby Abramson
Jul 13, 20211 min read
Petition in Solidarity with Academics and Activists in Belarus
Endangered Scholars Worldwide calls attention to and condemns the ongoing detention of Belarusian students in no uncertain terms for...
Ebby Abramson
May 20, 20211 min read
Thailand: Two Thai Pro-democracy Students Released on Bail
On Wednesday, May 19, 2021, Endangered Scholars Worldwide learned that two leaders of a Thai student-led prodemocracy movement who were...
Dolunay Bulut
Apr 6, 20212 min read
Petition in Solidarity with Academics and Activists in France
Photo credit: Geoffroy van der Hasselt, AFP Following the murder of a middle school history teacher in Paris by a radical Islamist in...
Ebby Abramson
Nov 25, 20204 min read
Extremely Urgent: Iran Must Stop Imminent Execution of Swedish-Iranian Academic Ahmadreza Djalali
On November 24, 2020, Endangered Scholars Worldwide (ESW) learned that Ahmadreza Djalali, an Iranian-Swedish specialist in emergency...
Ebby Abramson
Jul 10, 20202 min read
‘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 19, 20202 min read
Bolsonaro’s “Anti-Intellectualist Policy” Compromises Academic Freedom
On June 18, 2020, Endangered Scholars Worldwide learned that Jair Bolsonaro’s attempt to intervene in the appointment of university deans...
Ebby Abramson
Jun 17, 20201 min read
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
May 12, 20203 min read
Kylie Moore-Gilbert Feels Abandoned by Australia, Letters Say
Kylie Moore-Gilbert, a University of Melbourne lecturer and researcher specializing in Middle East politics, has spent more than 600 days in
Ebby Abramson
Jan 28, 20201 min read
Ethiopia State of Higher Education: 35,000 Students to Quit Class From 22 Universities
According to a report published by Ethiopia’s Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the protest and unrest in Ethiopia has caused...
Ebby Abramson
Jan 13, 20203 min read
Join Us in Protesting Right-Wing Attacks on Jawaharlal Nehru University
To: Narendra Modi Prime Minister of India SIGN HERE We, the undersigned, are writing to express our deep concern and shock at the...
Ebby Abramson
Nov 21, 20193 min read
Iran’s New Hostage-Taking Policy
Political hostage-takings are nothing new in Iran. Since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, Iran has repeatedly taken foreign nationals and...
Endangered Scholars Worldwide
Jun 20, 20191 min read
Academic Freedom in Hong Kong
By Jerome A. Cohen* Here is an important, thoughtful and balanced essay by Professors Marina Svensson and Eva Pils, Academic Freedom:...
Ebby Abramson
Jun 8, 20192 min read
Resolution by Leaders of Academy Research Network
A resolution by the Board of Directors of the Academy Research Centres regarding the necessary law amendment to transform the structure...
Dolunay Bulut
Mar 22, 201910 min read
Middle East Studies Association's Letter for Turkey's Peace Academics
H.E. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan President of the Republic of Turkey T.C. Cumhurbaşkanlığı Genel Sekreterliği 06689 Çankaya, Ankara Turkey Dear...
Ebby Abramson
Jan 24, 20195 min read
ESW Stands With Umbrella Nine
On November 19, 2018, the “Umbrella Nine” were brought before judges to account for their actions during the 2014 student-led protest...
Ebby Abramson
Nov 28, 20185 min read
Statement by Concerned Scholars on China’s Mass Detention of Turkic Minorities
As concerned scholars who study China, the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), Central Asia, and other related regions of the...
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