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Six Writers at Risk Discuss Their Work During Gathering at Harvard

“If I don’t write, I become sick.”
Hands of a Healer, Heart of a Syrian

“Fighting extremism starts from education, not from the fight," says the Syrian trauma surgeon and Harvard Scholar at Risk
Out of the Wolf's Mouth

“I knew I was putting my head into the wolf’s mouth,” Olivera said in Spanish during an interview.
A Safe Haven for Scholars at Risk

Those involved with the Scholars at Risk program aim to make their time as productive as possible
“I was in prison because I spoke,” said Birtukan Midekssa, a Harvard Scholar at Risk who spent 41 months of her life in prison.

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“I come from a poor place close to the Thai border. I never dreamed I would come here,” said poet Tararith Kho.

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After two assassination attempts in 2009, Baktybek Beshimov escaped Kyrgyzstan and came to the United States.

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Lahiru Jayatilaka grew up in Sri Lanka, the son of an engineer and a lawyer.

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"Susan Sontag wrote about the incident, 'that my crime should be called: bringing ideas to China.'”

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Maria Yulikova, a freelance Russian journalist, speaks to Expository Writing students about research and free expression.

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"In and out of jail more than six times, he was repeatedly beaten, and threatened with a gun to his head."

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"To Make the story a full six words long, just add: 'Meet this man.'"

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"'I realized I could not work [or live] in that environment,'" said former appellate judge Claudia Escobar.

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"The idea is to 'get them out of desperate mortal risk,' said panel moderator and literary scholar Stephen Greenblatt."

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“'What we write is not in history books,' said DRC playwright Pierre Mujomba, 'but it is part of history.'"

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Pulitzer Prize-winning Pakistani journalist Pir Zubair Shah speaks to Expository Writing 20 students about risk.

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Founding SAR Committee co-chair Jacqueline Bhabha speaks on the future of human rights education at Harvard

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