Scholar Rescue Fund Director Interview on America.gov

On July 24, the magazine America.gov published an article about the work of the Institute of International Education (IIE) and the IIE's Scholar Rescue Fund in assisting persecuted scholars. The interview is a result of questions and answers posed to SRF Executive Director Jim Miller and SRF Deputy Executive Director Sarah Willcox. The interview highlights the widespread, yet underreported, attacks on scholars worldwide and the importance of the academic community's response in turn. To find out how to host a scholar or contribute to the Fund, see: www.scholarrescuefund.org. Click here to read the article, Fund Helps Threatened Scholars Around the World

4th Annual Victor J. Goldberg IIE Prize for Peace in the Middle East Awarded.

Pictured are: Goldberg IIE Prize winners Lily Yaffe and Aziz Abu Sarah; IIE's Chief Operating Officer, Peggy Blumenthal; IIE Trustee Victor J. Goldberg.

At a reception in Jerusalem on June 24, U.S. Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission Luis G. Moreno and U.S. Consulate General Deputy Principal Officer Thomas Duffy hosted a reception to honor the recipients of the 2008 Victor J. Goldberg IIE Prize for Peace in the Middle East. Lily Yaffe and Aziz Abu Sarah received the Goldberg IIE Prize for their work with The Parents Circle Family Forum, conducting educational activities that draw on their own very moving personal stories and the experiences of hundreds of bereaved Palestinian and Israeli families who have lost immediate family members due to the violence in the region. Read Full Coverage of the Event.