Ten Inspiring Scholars to Celebrate the 10th Anniversary of IIE’s Scholar Rescue Fund: Scholar from Iraq

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.

Dr. Khalida Al Mousawy, a professor of clinical immunology from Iraq, suffered vicious threats and public attacks from members of the student body and other factions of the University of Baghdad. An SRF fellowship allowed her to spend one year at the University of South Carolina and her renewal year at the King Hussein Cancer Center (KHCC) in Amman, where she was able to apply the research methods she learned in the United States to benefit cancer patients in the MENA region.