With 120 Palestinian academics killed since October 7, the Council for At-Risk Academics faces unprecedented demand for assistance
For Amani Ahmed, her new life with her family in Edinburgh, studying for a PhD at one of the UK’s top universities, is bittersweet. Every day she checks her phone, seized by a fear that she will find a text saying her mother, brother or sister have been found under the rubble in Gaza.
“I feel that I am physically here, but mentally there in Gaza,” she said.
