To mark its 10th anniversary, IIE's Scholar Rescue Fund (SRF) is featuring the inspiring stories of 10 threatened scholars whose lives and academic work have been saved by the Fund. 

The fourth scholar to be featured is Dr. Abbas Fadhil Ali, an accomplished Iraqi scholar in the field of dentistry. Dr. Abbas applied to SRF after he fled Baghdad with his wife and two daughters. Many of his colleagues had been killed or kidnapped after receiving written threats, and he feared for his and his family’s lives when he received a similar missive. After two years on a SRF fellowship at the University of Sinai, he was able to return to Iraq, where he is now Associate Professor in the College of Dentistry at the University of Baghdad.  

Read more about Dr. Abbas’s story here: www.scholarrescuefund.org/pages/posts/dr.-abbas-fadhil-ali59.php.