Human rights-focused student denied study visa

A masters student at Georgetown University in the United States who researches human rights and migrant labour in the Middle East was denied a student visa to spend the fall semester at the university’s Qatar campus, renewing concerns about the limits on academic freedom at American campuses in the region, writes Elizabeth Redden for Inside Higher Ed.

Now a masters student at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service, Kristina Bogos had as an undergraduate studied abroad at New York University's branch in the United Arab Emirates, where she had written critically about her alma mater's treatment of the workers constructing its Abu Dhabi campus.

In a New York Times op-ed, Bogos wrote not only about her visa denial but also of her discovery that her personal email had been hacked last spring – she suspects the UAE – and of being under surveillance during her summer in Qatar. The headline for the op-ed is “American universities in a gulf of hypocrisy.”
Full report on the Inside Higher Ed site