Mahmoud Khalil writes to infant son: ‘My absence is not unique’

Photographer Mahmoud Dabdoub says he photographs with his heart above all else. In a new exhibition in Leipzig, pictures of his street photography from the 80s and 90s can be seen.

Mahmoud Khalil writes to infant son: ‘My absence is not unique’

Mahmoud Khalil, the former Columbia University student who has been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), wrote to his infant son in an opinion piece for The Guardian published Sunday, saying his “absence is not unique.” “My heart aches that I could not hold you in my arms and hear your first cry, that…

Mahmoud Khalil Calls Out Hypocrisy of 'Family Values' Politicians in Searing Op-Ed

It’s been two weeks since Mahmoud Khalil, a U.S. green card holder being held in an ICE detention center in Louisiana, missed the birth of his son. In March, Khalil, a Palestinian and recent graduate of Columbia University, was arrested and detained by ICE agents who didn’t have a warrant for his arrest, all in front of his then eight-month pregnant wife, Noor Abdalla. He’s since been held in the Louisiana ICE facility over 1,000 miles away, sol…

Washington - Arabic Jerusalem: In a polite article published in the British Guardian newspaper, Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian youth detained in the United States, criticized the contradiction of the American political discourse on family values while politics itself contributed to the dismantling of families and depriving them of their basic moments of humanity.

To my newborn son: I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction

From a detention center in Louisiana, student activist Mahmoud Khalil writes a letter to his newborn son, reflecting on love and the struggle for liberation.