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“International higher education writ large, needs to begin to imagine regional solutions to the displacement of students and at-risk university professionals,” said Keith David Watenpaugh, a historian of the Modern Middle East and associate professor who directs the University of California, Davis Human Rights Initiative, which joined with the Scholar Rescue Fund to produce the report.

"We have rescued nearly 500 scholars from 50 countries over the past 10 years. It’s important to be single-minded in our focus on the fact that our job is to rescue scholars and save their lives and knowledge."

US English language giant ELS Educational Services says it will team up with the Institute of International Education to support foreign scholars in crisis.

Former deputy minister will teach in the new School of Global and International Studies

When security concerns in Iraq reached unprecedented levels, such stories were not uncommon among academics, as the campaign to dismantle Iraq’s intellectual heritage raged.