# Coursera (كورسيرا)

> Coursera is currently blocked in Syria, as of 2026-09-05.

- Status: blocked
- Outreach: Contacted
- Company: [Coursera](https://unblocksyria.com/en/companies/coursera.md)
- Categories: Online Courses, Certification & Testing, Universities & Degrees
- Official site: https://www.coursera.org
- Community votes: 790
- Last updated: 2026-09-05
- Page: https://unblocksyria.com/en/services/coursera

## About

Online learning platform offering university courses, degrees, and professional certificates

## Activity summary

Blocked in Syria. The team has pressed Coursera for a review since February 2026, but the company has repeatedly declined, citing a conservative compliance policy, most recently reiterated in August.

## Official timeline

- 2026-03-19 — Declined. Coursera's support team repeated its conservative-compliance position and said Syria would remain blocked until conditions stabilize.
- 2026-03-17 — Follow-up Sent. UnblockSyria's team followed up in writing, noting Coursera had not responded to the February outreach and asking that the matter be escalated to legal and compliance colleagues.
- 2026-02-09 — Contacted Company. UnblockSyria's team formally asked Coursera's legal department to review its Syria IP restrictions, citing the lifted US and EU sanctions and the platform's own history of restoring access for education.

## Community reports

- 2026-08-26 — Follow-up Sent. A volunteer wrote again after Syria's removal from the US state-sponsor-of-terrorism list, asking Coursera's legal team to revisit its decision now that the reasoning it had cited no longer applies.
- 2026-04-26 — Follow-up Sent. A fourth community volunteer wrote to Coursera asking again for a policy review, noting other companies had already restored access.
- 2026-03-20 — Follow-up Sent. Another community volunteer wrote to Coursera reiterating the same request, citing the same sanctions references as earlier outreach.
- 2026-02-23 — Declined. Coursera's support team replied that it takes a conservative compliance approach and would keep blocking Syria until the situation is more stable, citing restrictions from its own partners.
- 2026-02-22 — Verified. A community member confirmed Coursera still displayed an OFAC-restrictions page from a Syrian connection despite the sanctions framework being lifted, with a screenshot as evidence. The finding was verified.
- 2026-02-16 — Follow-up Sent. Another community volunteer, an information-security consultant, wrote to Coursera arguing that education access should not be restricted and asking whether its Syria policy was under review.
- 2026-02-14 — Contacted Company. A community volunteer wrote directly to Coursera, describing being personally blocked and asking that access be restored now that US and EU sanctions on Syria have been lifted.

## Context

These are geo-restrictions the companies applied themselves, not filtering by Syrian ISPs and not a legal requirement. US and EU sanctions on Syria were lifted in 2025. See https://unblocksyria.com/llms.txt for the regulatory summary and https://unblocksyria.com/en/about for citations to the specific orders and regulations.

## Machine-readable

- JSON: https://api.unblocksyria.com/services/coursera?locale=en
- Timeline JSON: https://api.unblocksyria.com/services/coursera/timeline-entries?locale=en
- HTML: https://unblocksyria.com/en/services/coursera
- Other languages: https://unblocksyria.com/ar/services/coursera.md, https://unblocksyria.com/ku/services/coursera.md