Word: beydulla
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...Cairo, Beydulla learned of the Scholars at Risk Program, a network created in the past decade at over 90 U.S. institutions, including Harvard, as well as over 45 international institutions...
...Beydulla is one of a few Uyghurs to have received a doctorate degree and, accordingly, was offered a teaching post at Xinjiang Teachers’ University and returned to China to take the job in Dec. 2005, hoping the situation with the police would have dissipated by then...
...upon his arrival, he was interrogated by the police again and the National Secret Service left a voicemail with the head of the school saying that Beydulla was not fit to teach, and Beydulla was banned from teaching at the school...
...Beydulla fled again to Turkey in March 2006 but in his second stay, he was stabbed in the leg in a mugging. He was unsure whether it was a random incident or if he was targeted for being Uyghur. After the experience, he no longer felt safe there, so he found a friend in Egypt and left Turkey for University there...
...Beydulla applied for one of the year-long fellowships and was a Harvard Scholar at Risk last year...