Nature Middle East | House of Wisdom
KAUST academics: Institution pushing the envelope through education, not protests
The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is between a rock and a hard place – asked to condemn the flogging of a Saudi blogger, perhaps try to influence the sentence, in a country that doesn’t forgive opposition, and shuns dissenters.
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