Lecturer’s Arrest in the Emirates Stirs Debate Over Academic Freedom in the Middle East

by E Wayne Ross on April 18, 2011

The Chronicle: Lecturer’s Arrest in the Emirates Stirs Debate Over Academic Freedom in the Middle East

The recent detention of a Sorbonne lecturer in the United Arab Emirates has rekindled the debate over the nature of academic freedom at Western institutions in the Persian Gulf region and the political impact those institutions, especially the high-profile new campus of New York University in Abu Dhabi, will have.