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With her husband, Mahmoud Khalil, locked in a detention center 1,500 miles away, the dentist is suddenly a single parent.
"My husband was taken away from me in the middle of the night," said Noor Abdalla. "It was one of the most terrifying times of my life. I don't think I've ever experienced anything scarier than that." ...
In her first broadcast interview, Noor Abdalla speaks about the arrest and attempted deportation of her husband, Columbia University protestor Mahmoud Khalil. Like Senator Schumer, the Israeli ...
When federal immigration officials confronted Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil inside his New York City apartment building earlier this month, his wife, Noor Abdalla, assumed it was a ...
This was supposed to be a season of joy for 28-year-old Noor Abdalla. She and her husband, Mahmoud Khalil, are expecting their first child next month, and they were getting ready. Planning a baby ...
"My husband was taken away from me in the middle of the night," said Noor Abdalla. "It was one of the most terrifying times of my life. I don't think I've ever experienced anything scarier than that." ...
Last Sunday, Noor Abdalla drove from her apartment in Morningside Heights to St. Paul and St. Andrew United Methodist Church, on the Upper West Side. She was with her sister and her month-old son ...
Noor Abdalla, Khalil's wife of more than two years, said she was confused. As a legal permanent resident of the U.S., surely Khalil did not have to worry about that, she recalls telling him.
Khalil’s representatives said that ICE’s refusal stood in contrast to the agency’s directives encouraging contact visits and preserving parental rights.
The detentions of Khalil and other activists highlight what experts describe as a pattern of using family separation as leverage against specific communities.
In a sworn declaration, Palestinian rights activist Mahmoud Khalil laid before the court the irreparable harms he has ...
The activist, who has been detained in Louisiana for two months, was allowed to meet privately with his wife and child. He is ...