Inside Higher Ed reports this morning that Syracuse University Press has ceased publishing a title released last year because of defamation concerns.

The press pulled the book after learning of legal threats against it from a woman in Pakistan who says that a character is based on her and defames her name. While Syracuse didn’t announce that it was yanking Lahore With Love, the press confirmed the action Wednesday after the National Writers Union criticized how the controversy was handled. . . . The author of the book is Fawzia Afzal-Khan, a professor of English and director of women’s and gender studies at Montclair State University. She recently self-published the book. And in an interview Wednesday night, she said that she was “shocked” by the way Syracuse treated her book. “I thought that, as my publisher, they would have stood by me,” she said.