Scholars at Risk

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
National Conference on Wilderness and Travel Medicine Benefitting Harvard SAR

View the schedule, register online, and support Harvard SAR
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
Scholars at Risk mourns the passing of Heather Adams.

Beloved member of the Scholars at Risk family, and champion of children with intellectual disabilities is remembered.
“I was in prison because I spoke,” said Birtukan Midekssa, a Harvard Scholar at Risk who spent 41 months of her life in prison.

Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer
“I come from a poor place close to the Thai border. I never dreamed I would come here,” said poet Tararith Kho.

Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer
After two assassination attempts in 2009, Baktybek Beshimov escaped Kyrgyzstan and came to the United States.

Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer
Lahiru Jayatilaka grew up in Sri Lanka, the son of an engineer and a lawyer.

Justin Ide/Harvard Staff Photographer
"Susan Sontag wrote about the incident, 'that my crime should be called: bringing ideas to China.'”

Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer
Maria Yulikova, a freelance Russian journalist, speaks to Expository Writing students about research and free expression.

Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer
"In and out of jail more than six times, he was repeatedly beaten, and threatened with a gun to his head."

Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer
"To Make the story a full six words long, just add: 'Meet this man.'"

Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer
"'I realized I could not work [or live] in that environment,'" said former appellate judge Claudia Escobar.

Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer
"The idea is to 'get them out of desperate mortal risk,' said panel moderator and literary scholar Stephen Greenblatt."

Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer
“'What we write is not in history books,' said DRC playwright Pierre Mujomba, 'but it is part of history.'"

Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer
Pulitzer Prize-winning Pakistani journalist Pir Zubair Shah speaks to Expository Writing 20 students about risk.

Rose Lincoln/Harvard Staff Photographer
Founding SAR Committee co-chair Jacqueline Bhabha speaks on the future of human rights education at Harvard

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Six Writers at Risk Discuss Their Work During Gathering at Harvard

Hands of a Healer, Heart of a Syrian

National Conference on Wilderness and Travel Medicine Benefitting Harvard SAR

Out of the Wolf's Mouth

A Safe Haven for Scholars at Risk

Scholars at Risk mourns the passing of Heather Adams.

“I was in prison because I spoke,” said Birtukan Midekssa, a Harvard Scholar at Risk who spent 41 months of her life in prison.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

May 2017

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