Targeting of Tufts Student for Deportation Stuns Friends and Teachers

Targeting of Tufts Student for Deportation Stuns Friends and Teachers

On March 9, Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish graduate student at Tufts University, sent an anxious text message to Najiba Akbar, the university’s former Muslim chaplain, with whom she had become close. “I recently learned that someone added all my information to a doxxing website called Canary Mission because of the op-ed published last March,” Ms. … Read more

D.C. Plane Crash Echoes Boston Skating Club’s 1961 Tragedy

D.C. Plane Crash Echoes Boston Skating Club’s 1961 Tragedy

One floor above the ice rinks at the Skating Club of Boston, there’s a lounge that would have hosted a party after January’s U.S. Figure Skating national championships. Its glass doors would have been thrown open, and its fireplace set aglow, as several hundred people gathered to toast the club’s latest champions, the pairs skaters … Read more

Deported Professor Rasha Alawieh Attended Hezbollah Leader’s Funeral, D.H.S. Says

Deported Professor Rasha Alawieh Attended Hezbollah Leader’s Funeral, D.H.S. Says

The Department of Homeland Security said on Monday that it had deported a Brown University professor and doctor with a valid visa because they said she attended a Hezbollah leader’s funeral in February during a trip to Lebanon. When questioned by Customs and Border Protection officers upon her return to the United States, Dr. Rasha … Read more

Brown University Surgeon and Professor Are Deported to Lebanon Despite a Judge’s Order

Brown University Surgeon and Professor Are Deported to Lebanon Despite a Judge’s Order

A kidney transplant specialist and professor at Brown University’s medical school has been deported from the United States, even though she had a valid visa and a court order temporarily blocking her expulsion, according to her lawyer and court papers. Dr. Rasha Alawieh, 34, a Lebanese citizen who had traveled to Lebanon last month to … Read more