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...

Harvard freshman Ismail B. Ajjawi, 23, who United States border officials turned away thirteen days ago, arrived on campus Monday in time...

On March 21, President Trump signed an executive order titled “Improving Free Inquiry, Transparency, and Accountability at Colleges and...

The US Environmental Protection Agency has blocked three scheduled discussions of climate change by agency scientists at a conference on...

In a letter addressed to President Andrew Hamilton and members of the NYU Abu Dhabi administration, 10 NYU professors called for greater...

Iran’s imprisonment of Xiyue Wang, a naturalized United States citizen from China who is a PhD candidate in history at Princeton...

On September 5, 2017, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA) is being...

An Iranian court has sentenced an American graduate student to 10 years in prison for spying, the judiciary’s official news agency...

Henri J. Barkey, a Turkish professor of international relations at Lehigh University, will no longer board a flight that passes over the...

North Korea arrests another professor from the US over charges of allegedly being hostile to the state. Professor Kim Hak Song was...

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...

A Long Island PhD student from Iran has been detained at JFK for the past 24 hours following President Trump’s executive order...

Faculty, students, and staff across the country are calling for their universities to become sanctuary campuses following the 2016...

On November 16, 2016, Endangered Scholars Worldwide transmitted a letter of protest to US President-elect Donald Trump's office regarding...

Those of us at The New School received news on Saturday that dorm room doors had been vandalized with swastikas. The president has acted...

Serkan Golge, a 36-year-old NASA physicist of Turkish descent, was arrested on August 6 and formally accused of involvement with the...

After more than 18 months, Jason Rezaian was released from an Iranian prison as the result of a deal struck between the US and Iran. “I...

Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian and two other Americans safely left Iran as part of a prisoner-swap. They landed in Germany...

Turkish President Erdogan described Noam Chomsky, a scholar who, along with 1,128 Turkish and foreign academics from 89 universities,...

Noam Chomsky, Jerome A. Cohen, Juan Cole,Simon Critchley, and Wendy Doniger, et al.* To the Iranian authorities: We, the undersigned, are...