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“The policy was that there was academic freedom, but the reality was that there was a lot of academic constraint and self-censorship, and at times there was government censorship of academic materials,” said Dr Harkness. 2/n
A lack of academic freedom, which is not unique to Qatar, was one of the reasons Dr Harkness gave for leaving the country in 2013.
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“There’s always the concern that if you say or do the wrong thing, show the wrong film, give the wrong opinion, quote the wrong author, that you could be deported,” he said.
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“You always felt that the knock on the door was going to come at three o’clock in the morning – I lived in a constant state of very mild fear that I was going to be deported, and that’s exactly what the government wants.” n/n