Category Free Speech
To my newborn son: I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction
-Mahmoud Khalil Yaba Deen,* it has been two weeks since you were born, and these are my first words to you. In the early hours of 21 April, I waited on the other end of a phone as your mother…
I Was Detained for My Beliefs. Who Will Be Next?
By Mohsen Mahdawi Mr. Mahdawi is a Palestinian human rights advocate and Columbia University student. On April 14, 2025, I was detained during what should have been my citizenship naturalization interview. After more than two weeks of unjust imprisonment, a…
Does Columbia still merit the name of a university?
It was never about eliminating antisemitism. It was always about silencing Palestine. That is what the gagging of protesting students, and now the gagging of faculty, was always meant to lead to. While partisans of the Israeli-American mass slaughter in…
My name is Mahmoud Khalil
A Letter from Mahmoud Khalil