Rayman Aryani ’12, the former vice president of the Society of Arab Students, was in Tunisia on a SAS recruiting trip when the recent revolution occurred.
“Harvard showed a lot of care when they found out we were stuck in the country [and offered] sending a chartered plane to fly us out,” Aryani wrote in an email to The Crimson.
But Aryani and his peer Michael I. Khayyat ’12, who was also on the SAS trip, were able to catch a flight out of the country.
THIS SUMMER ON THE LIST
“You can go to Israel, if you’d like,” the College told El-Hage when she asked if she would receive credit for studying Arabic in Lebanon.
Israel is an example of a country with a standing travel warning for which Harvard will still support student travel.
The State Department “warns U.S. citizens of the risks” in traveling to the region, but Harvard is sponsoring two study abroad programs through the Harvard Summer School in Israel.
“The wording in the travel warning for Israel is that of the second category, so this is consistent with Harvard’s policy,” Washburn says.
Daniel J. Granoff ’14, who will be in Israel this summer with one of the two Harvard programs, says he felt comfortable traveling to Israel despite the travel warning.
“If there was any substantial danger, the program would have been canceled,” Granoff says.
In other countries on the travel warning list, Harvard will support travel to certain regions or cities in the country that are deemed safe by the State Department.
After the travel alert issued on April 14 for Japan replaced the previously issued travel warning, Harvard decided to provide funding and/or credit for travel to Kyoto, Japan.
The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies coordinates study abroad programs in Mexico—for which a warning of a lesser degree is in effect.
According to Halbert M. Jones ’99, senior fellow of the Mexico and Central America Program at the DRCLAS, the center works with a local university in planning for its Summer Internship Program in Sustainable Development.
Jones says the center “works with local partners at the [Tecnológico] de Monterrey, a leading Mexican university, to ensure the program participants will be in a safe environment.”
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