The Harvard graduating students denied their degrees over Palestine protest

Asmer Asrar Safi (left) and Shraddha Joshi (right) were among 13 Harvard students honoured with a 'mock graduation' ceremony hosted by the Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine (HOOP) coalition, which was leading campus protests against the war in Gaza [Courtesy of Shraddha Joshi]

More than two weeks have passed since the graduates’ commencement ceremony for 2024 at Harvard University, but Asmer Asrar Safi is still waiting to receive the degree for which he spent four years studying.

“The situation remains as is, unfortunately,” he tells Al Jazeera from Boston, United States.