As a partner of the Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund (SRF), Canada has enabled almost 30 professors, researchers and scientists to come to universities across Canada to continue their work.
Allan Goodman, the president and CEO of the New York-based Institute of International Education – a non-profit organization that advocates for international education exchange – said that saving academics means preserving the potential for their work to help others.
“The world has been hard on its scholars,” Dr. Goodman said. “[The University of] Alberta straight up said, 'You send us the best, we’ll take one every year.’ ”His family is still in Yemen, where the war continues to endanger civilian lives. Last week, the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project reported that more than 70,000 people have been killed since the beginning of 2016 as a result of the conflict.
His home, too, was destroyed, but he and his family escaped and donned disguises to flee north into Saudi Arabia in 2015. From there, they flew to the United States, where he taught for a time at the University of Oklahoma. In June, 2018, he moved to Ottawa for a position at Carleton in the physics department.
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