Independent journalist & creative nonfiction writer. bylines everywhere but the best ones are here: https://xitter.cf/t.co/OmLfeP0Xqv

Joined November 2008
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Had a great conversation with @Jenn_Chowdhury for Port of Entry. We spoke about my family’s experience with immigration, pushing for transformative change in Albany, and why democratic socialism is resonating with voters across the country. Read it here: port-of-entry.com/p/diaspora…
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This is Cereese Qusba, the hero investigative journalist for the Cornell Daily Sun who doggedly pursued the story about the Cornell 7 for two years, blowing the lid off what had happened when her article was finally published on the 19th.. With so many dark posts about such a horrific incident, Ms. Qusba’s work shows the importance of journalism in accountability. She is the best of Cornell.
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.@Cornell arrested 22 students for protesting a genocide but seven students who drugged and raped a woman for seven hours were made to write essays about it.
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I wrote why @Prada's choice of Palestinian-born Saint Levant as their brand ambassador is a big deal. Not because the promo shoot shows him wearing a Palestine map pendant, but b/c this is the 1st luxury brand to make such an overt political statement. newlinesmag.com/running-note…
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An English-born immigrant of Nigerian descent got the game-winning tip-in for the Knicks after a shot made by a New Jersey transplant, and that’s what makes NYC great 🧡🗽💙.
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“Alvarado is the only native New Yorker on the team and wears the number five on his jersey, a number he said he chose in part as a nod to the five boroughs.” gothamist.com/news/from-nych…
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This is the only angle that does that miracle justice.
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The Israeli army just bombed a densely populated refugee camp in the Tyre district, Lebanon
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IA dans le journalisme : « Le danger n’est pas tant dans l’automatisation que dans l’adoption d’un système mediatico-industriel où la vitesse et l’optimisation priment sur l’expertise humaine, l’indépendance éditoriale et l’intérêt général » reutersinstitute.politics.ox…
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Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.
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"This will be the third graduation and commencement ceremony in a row where we do not have a student speaker, where we do not have a faculty speaker and we do not have a live-streamed commencement. ... [T]hey took [all] that away specifically because of Palestine repression."
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Bezos’s new opinion section has 515 YouTube subscribers. CBS News is at historic ratings lows. The Daily Wire is shedding audience. The billionaires paying for all of it say it doesn’t matter. trib.al/tTKezSY
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Jennifer Chowdhury retweeted
🎉Congratulations to our contributor @Jenn_Chowdhury for receiving an Honorable Mention at the 2026 @aaja Journalism Excellence Awards for her @newlinesmag story "A Police Officer's Death Divides Bangladeshi Americans." Read the story in full: newlinesmag.com/argument/a-p…
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Three Muslims were just killed in a shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego after two teenaged shooters entered and opened fire. While anti-Muslim/anti-Arab racism has been systematically fomented in this country for decades, the last two and a half years have seen every major institution - political, media, and educational - manufacture outrage about antisemitism in service of those who support the slaughter of Arabs and Muslims. Every institution has pushed anti-Arab/anti-Muslim racism without pause because Muslim, Arab life has no currency here and is created to be expendable.
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A massive problem with media illiteracy today is that people think Journalism — the real kind — is interchangeable with opinion columns and TikTok’s that people just fart out as soon as they have a thought. ACTUAL journalism by professionals takes time and verifiable reporting.
The thing about journalism is that long form features don’t sprout up the moment you have a pitch. The reporting doesn’t spring out of thin air. The editing. The fact checking. The legal. And the accumulation of examples and data points that bear out trends over LONG PERIODS.
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This is a hard article to read, but I hope you'll do so. I've spent some time reporting on widespread rape and other sexual violence of Palestinian male and female prisoners by Israeli authorities, and the article is now published. The assault victims were warned not to give speak of what they endured -- they were sometimes told they would be killed or raped if they gave interviews -- but they found the courage to do so. One man described being raped three times in a single day in Israeli prison, the third time after he tried to protest. A young woman said the guards would come in at the beginning of each shift and strip her naked and abuse her. Another reported that she was shown photos of herself being raped and warned they would be released unless she cooperated with Israeli intelligence. Even three children who had been detained told me they had been sexually abused. Look, whatever our position on the Middle East, we should be able to agree on being anti-rape. Sexual assaults were horrific when Israeli women were targeted on Oct. 7, and they're equally horrific when Israeli authorities use them against Palestinians day after day after day. We should be able to find common ground in opposing rape. Here's a gift link to the article: nytimes.com/2026/05/11/opini…
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“when i launched my book club, it wasn’t in a cozy café. it was in a reading group at downview women’s prison. i’ll never forget what one of the women shared with me: ‘perhaps if i’d read more books when i was younger, i wouldn’t be here now’.” — dua lipa at the booker prize
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Fact: He traveled there for his cooking show & when they tried to block this one episode, he said he would pull his entire show from the network & this was the first time the world ever saw behind the walls in Gaza 2013
Its been 7 years since anthony bourdain died, he respected palestinians like very few other western journalists ever did. This is from a 2013 episode of parts unknown where he went to the gaza strip.
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Utterly disgusted by @RutgersU Engineering School's decision to cancel the commencement speech from distinguished alum @RamiElghandour. The level of anti-Arab, anti-Muslim, & anti-Palestinian racism on college campuses is unchecked & out of control. theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
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Everyone should stop what they're doing and read this deeply heartbreaking and incredibly powerful new essay from Mahmoud Khalil about his old life -- the one he had before the Trump administration began unjustly targeting him. nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…
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