Featured series 
Tag: Scholars at Risk
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Nation & World
From Kyiv to Harvard and back
Harvard Scholars at Risk program allows physicians to continue their education during wartime.
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Nation & World
Fighting for human rights in riven land overseen by repressive regime
Ugandan Scholar at Risk and human rights lawyer Nicholas Opiyo describes how his early life shaped his future.
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Arts & Culture
Danger in creating an English-language library in Gaza
Harvard Scholar at Risk and poet Abu Toha created the first English-language library in Gaza.
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Nation & World
Speaking up, reaching out
Lawyer and then-professor of law at Ambo University, Zelalem Kibret first visited a jailed politician in Ethiopia’s infamous Kaliti Prison in 2012, hoping to raise awareness about people arrested for challenging the status quo. In 2014, Zelalem found himself behind bars for speaking up.
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Arts & Culture
When words spell danger
Six writers at risk discussed their work during an event at Harvard.
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Nation & World
Out of ‘the wolf’s mouth’
Cuban writer and journalist Jorge Olivera is a dissident who was sentenced to prison and eventually released on humanitarian grounds. He’s now a Scholar at Risk hosted by Harvard’s Department of Comparative Literature.
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Nation & World
Confronting the refugee crisis
A Harvard student follows her passion for the welfare of refugees back home to Germany after graduation, and Harvard researchers seek solutions to the European crisis.
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Campus & Community
Kimmel steps up for Scholars at Risk
Late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel will be joined by sports analyst Bill Simmons at a Boston fundraiser to support Harvard’s Scholars at Risk program.
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Nation & World
Keeping up the fight
An educator and award-winning author, Beekan Erena is on a mission to highlight the plight of the Oromo people, the largest ethnic majority in Ethiopia, who have struggled for years for political and economic equality.
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Arts & Culture
Deep into a bloody history
A Cambodian filmmaker, now a Scholar at Risk at Harvard, looks back at “Enemies of the People,” his documentary on Cambodia’s killing fields of 1975-79.
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Arts & Culture
Happily ever after, sometimes
A Scholars at Risk panel investigates the universal uses of narrative and the hard-wired human need for storytelling.
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Nation & World
Up by his bootstraps
Cambodian writer Tararith Kho, who grew up amid war and pushed relentlessly to be educated, is now a Harvard Scholars at Risk fellow. His weapons are well-turned words.
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Nation & World
The man from Kyrgyzstan
Historian Baktybek Beshimov, a former diplomat and parliamentarian, fled political unrest in his homeland to research and write in Harvard’s Scholars at Risk program.
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Campus & Community
Aiding scholars at risk
Harvard issues a call for nominations in an annual quest to offer one-year fellowships to “scholars at risk” who face persecution in their native countries.
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Campus & Community
Leading the way
In a series of profiles, Gazette writers showcase some of these stellar graduates, including Lahiru Jayatilaka, who as a young computer whiz learned a lasting lesson about the importance of precision.
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Nation & World
The Living Magazine
Exiled, censored, and under fire from hostile regimes, international writers make a plea at Harvard for creative freedom.
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Nation & World
Writers at Risk
A Harvard instructor, concerned about literary artists threatened overseas, proposes Writers at Risk, an academic harbor.
