Dec
Sam Schwarzkopf, a German neuroscientist living in the UK, contacted the Guardian after it published the story of Monique Hawkins. He said he had a similar experience at the hands of the Home Office to Hawkins, a Dutch woman who was told to make preparations to leave the UK after she applied for British citizenship […]
Oct
Leading foreign academics from the LSE (London School of Economics) acting as expert advisers to the UK government were barred from contributing to government work and analysis on Brexit because they are not British nationals. Up to nine LSE academics specializing in EU affairs have been briefing the Foreign Office on Brexit issues, but the […]
Aug
The Facebook account of Philippe Marlière, a Professor of French and European politics at the University College London was suspended after he published an article defending women’s right to wear burkini. On 26 August 2016, the political scientist Marlière saw his Facebook account suspended after he posted his article in Contretemps, the French journal of communist […]
Jan
Professor Steven Salaita had a job offer rescinded by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign after he tweeted anti-Israel remarks. In a statement, the university cites a number of anti-Israel tweets sent by Salaita as grounds for the decision. Salaita had already quit his previous job at Virginia Tech University, sold his house, and moved to Illinois. One of […]
Aug
The Dutch city of Rotterdam and its university have fired Swiss Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan as an adviser to the city after he hosted a program on an Iranian television channel. Ramadan has been an advisor to the mayor on issues of multi-culturalism since 2007, and has been a visiting professor of theology in Erasmus University. Ramadan was […]
Oct
Professor Adam Habib, the deputy chancellor of the University of Johannesburg and a prominent political scientist and commentator in South Africa was met by armed guards on 21 October 2006 at New York’s airport. He was questioned by US officials about whether he had ties to terrorist organizations and deported afterwards. Habib was coming to the United States to attend […]
Aug
A prominent Muslim scholar from Switzerland, Tariq Ramadan, was supposed to begin teaching a seminar on Islamic ethics at the University of Notre Dame on 24 August 2004, but he did not show up for his first class because the State Department revoked his visa. University officials said an American diplomat telephoned the scholar this month […]
Feb
A Florida college professor identified as a fund raiser and organizer for a Palestinian terrorist group blamed for killing two Americans -and many others- was arrested on 20 February 2003 and charged along with seven other people with racketeering and conspiracy to commit murder. Federal authorities arrested Kuwaiti-born University of South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian, […]
