In Brief Syed Hamid Hussein, a 34-year-old chemistry professor at Bacha Khan University in northwest Pakistan, died on January 20, 2016...

In Brief Giulio Regeni, an Italian doctoral student at Cambridge who was studying abroad in Egypt, disappeared on his way to a party in...

In Brief Naqib Khpulwak, an assistant law professor at the American University in Kabul, Afghanistan, was among the 16 students and...

In Brief Nazimuddin Samad, a 28-year-old secular activist and law student at Jagannath University, was killed in Dhaka, Bangladeshi...

In Brief On December 29, 2016, the renowned writer and linguist Necmiye Alpay was released from Bakirkoy prison in Istanbul, 120 days...

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

On March 25, 2019, Endangered Scholars Worldwide learned that Mohammed Al-Qahtani, a prominent Saudi economist’s, health is deteriorating...

In a collective letter with other organizations, the Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies expresses grave concern...

H.E. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan President of the Republic of Turkey T.C. Cumhurbaşkanlığı Genel Sekreterliği 06689 Çankaya, Ankara Turkey Dear...

Political scientist Füsun Üstel, a professor who retired from Galatasaray University in Istanbul, was among the first of 1,128 scholars...

The trials of Academics for Peace continues in Istanbul Heavy Penal Courts. As of February 20, 2019, 479 of 2,212 peace academics have...

The New University in Exile Consortium is an initiative created by The New School, home of the first University in Exile, formed in 1933...

Specific details are emerging about an alarming number of university professors within China’s Uyghur minority who have been imprisoned...

Endangered Scholars Worldwide continues to be extremely concerned about the Turkish government’s systematic targeting of the country’s...

On November 19, 2018, the “Umbrella Nine” were brought before judges to account for their actions during the 2014 student-led protest...

It has been over 30 months since Ahmadreza Djalali, an Iranian-Swedish citizen and a scholar of disaster medicine was arrested in Iran....