The following is the text of a statement released earlier today by the American Association of University Professors on the denial of entry to the emirate of Abu Dhabi to NYU Professor Andrew Ross. Not long after the statement was issued, news arrived of another incident involving a faculty member in Abu Dhabi. According to a report in the Gainesville Sun, “A longtime University of Florida engineering professor is being held in Abu Dhabi by the United Arab Emirates pending the resolution of his legal status. John Schueller, an engineering professor in both the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering and the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, was arrested last week and released on bail.” Schueller was in Abu Dhabi on university-approved business travel to attend a conference on world hunger, “The Global Forum for Innovations in Agriculture.” He was reportedly arrested after taking photographs of buildings in…
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