Wow. I can’t believe it. I was a finalist for the Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association award for Excellence in Opinion and Analysis for my article in The Guardian “The Destruction of Palestine is Breaking the World” and I won!

(Link to the article in the comments!)

Honored and humbled that my featured essay in The Guardian, The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world, has been named a finalist for the Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association award for Excellence in Opinion and Analysis!

Another academic is detained by the Trump administration for his freedom of thought and expression.

In what must be an act of resistance, Mahmoud Khalil *refused to sign* his “Notice to Appear” (the first step in a deportation proceeding)

This reminds me of John Ashcroft’s daily announcement of number of arrests after 9/11. Triggering and disturbing.