Aida Alami

A very big deal. In Netflix’s plan to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN is left out—to the reported relief of its staffers.

In Netflix’s plan to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN is left out—to the reported relief of its staffers. Read @aidaalami.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

In 2025, press freedom came under direct attack. We must not respond to this existential crisis with silence and apathy.

In 2025, press freedom came under direct attack. We must not respond to this existential crisis with silence and apathy. Read @aidaalami.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

In 2025, press freedom came under direct attack. We must not respond to this existential crisis with silence and apathy.

www.cjr.org/the_media_to... “I fear that press freedom is slowly and quietly eroding while institutional silence and apathy do nothing to protect it. Freedom is never lost at once.” @aidaalami.bsky.social

Powerful and poignant piece by @aidaalami.bsky.social in Columbia Journalism Review on how Western legacy media covers Gaza | www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

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Starting January 1 wherever you listen to radio. 🤍 #IWMF

The Last Columbia Protester in ICE Detention Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian woman who has lived in the U.S. since 2016, has been detained in Texas for the past eight months.

In her latest piece for The @newyorker.com, @aidaalami.bsky.social, James Madison Visiting Professor on First Amendment Issues, tells the story of Leqaa Kordia, who demonstrated outside Columbia’s campus gates and remains the last participant still detained by ICE: www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Twin assaults on press freedom. The ICE detention of Sami Hamdi closely follows the deportation of Mario Guevara.

Had Hamdi’s arrest happened anywhere else in the world, it'd "spark a collective outcry," @aidaalami.bsky.social writes in @columjournreview.bsky.social.

“But in this case, the person targeted is pro-Palestine. The muted reaction is a troubling public response to a troubling act of state power.”

Twin assaults on press freedom. The ICE detention of Sami Hamdi closely follows the deportation of Mario Guevara.

The ICE detention of Sami Hamdi closely follows the deportation of Mario Guevara. Read @aidaalami.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

The press leaves the Pentagon. Proximity to power is not the only way—or even the best way—to report on government.

Proximity to power is not the only way—or even the best way—to report on government, by @aidaalami.bsky.social.
www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

Column | ICE detainees face greater risk from extreme heat than most prisoners A Washington Post analysis found that ICE detention centers experience an average of 29 days of dangerous heat per year.

Column: Detainees at ICE facilities may be more vulnerable to extreme heat exposure than people housed in federal, state and county prisons, according to a Washington Post analysis.

The Last Columbia Protester in ICE Detention Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian woman who has lived in the U.S. since 2016, has been detained in Texas for the past eight months.

Do you know the name, Leqaa Kordia? She’s the last Columbia protester in ICE detention. Read her story. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

The Last Columbia Protester in ICE Detention Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian woman who has lived in the U.S. since 2016, has been detained in Texas for the past eight months.

Leqaa Kordia faces deportation for protesting the war in Gaza, in which she lost more than 175 of her relatives. She is the last Columbia protestor still in ICE detention.

www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

The Last Columbia Protester in ICE Detention Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian woman who has lived in the U.S. since 2016, has been detained in Texas for the past eight months.

Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian woman who has lived in the U.S. since 2016, has been detained in Texas for the past eight months.

www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Leqaa Kordia—not a Columbia student but “a simple Palestinian girl,” as she describes herself—is the last remaining campus protester still in detention from the Trump Administration’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian demonstrators in the U.S. Read her story: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/mGwzBs

The Last Columbia Protester in ICE Detention Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian woman who has lived in the U.S. since 2016, has been detained in Texas for the past eight months.

Leqaa Kordia—not a Columbia student but “a simple Palestinian girl,” as she describes herself—is the last remaining campus protester still in detention from the Trump Administration’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian demonstrators in the U.S.

YouTube video by FRANCE 24 English Morocco public figures urge king to act after youth protests • FRANCE 24 English

journalist @aidaalami.bsky.social interviewed on the GenZ protests in Morocco and their "very basic and reasonable demands" and regime efforts to "co-opt the movement."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx3A...

Urgent Ideas for Defending Press Freedom in Gaza Letters, condemnations, and Israeli court cases have failed to change the world’s deadliest place for journalists. We’ve cast out for a new approach.

What Could We Be Doing in Gaza? Urgent ideas to defend press freedom in the world's deadliest place for journalists.! 🦋
www.cjr.org/feature/urge...

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The New Imams | Aida Alami For years I have been working on a documentary film about young Muslims in France, centered on the 2017 trial that convicted a police officer of killing a

Fascinating and deeply reported piece from Aida Alami in @nybooks.com on what makes a uniquely Muslim American imam, and how they are helping themselves and their community navigate the demands of a secularizing, pluralistic, and Islamophobic country.

The New Imams | Aida Alami For years I have been working on a documentary film about young Muslims in France, centered on the 2017 trial that convicted a police officer of killing a

“Imams in the US,” writes @aidaalami.bsky.social, “[need] to guide their congregants through civic life in a country whose dominant culture is secularizing, pluralistic, and systematically Islamophobic.”

The New Imams | Aida Alami For years I have been working on a documentary film about young Muslims in France, centered on the 2017 trial that convicted a police officer of killing a

"The task of imams in the US is markedly different: to guide their congregants through civic life in a country whose dominant culture is secularizing, pluralistic, and systematically Islamophobic." Excellent piece by @aidaalami.bsky.social @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

An excerpt from the linked article. It reads as follows: As Abdalla readied Deen for the ceremony, cheers could be heard in the main hall. The event’s featured speakers, including the Palestinian writer Mohammed el-Kurd, the Tunisian singer Emel Mathlouthi, and the actor Susan Sarandon, were arriving. A box in the room where Abdalla was getting ready contained dozens of pieces of fabric with the names of Palestinians killed in Gaza written on them in both English and Arabic. Abdalla pinned one on herself: “Azhar Ibrahim Ayesh Shaheen age: 22.” Deen was wearing a miniature cap and gown with text printed on the back that read “They tried to bury us but they did not know we are seeds.”

From "The Radical Courage of Noor Abdalla" by @aidaalami.bsky.social for the @newyorker.com.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Giant of Kenyan Letters Just thirty kilometres outside of Nairobi, off the Nakuru highway, the land becomes flatter and less populated. An unassuming field beyond Limuru gives way to several isolated buildings behind a ru…

An enormous tree has fallen and I'm hoping to see a definitive appreciation. I was privileged to know Ngugi late in his career. He and I did a book discussion together at UC Irvine in 2011, we've shared an agent, and stayed in touch. A big loss. lithub.com/ngugi-wa-thi...

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The Radical Courage of Noor Abdalla How the wife of Mahmoud Khalil has navigated becoming a new mother while fighting for her husband’s freedom.

“To the students here today, you spoke when silence was the easier choice,” Noor Abdalla said. “You stood firmer when these institutions failed you. True justice and education must include the freedom to dissent, the right to speak out for human rights, and the courage ...”

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Noor Abdalla was eight months pregnant when her husband, Mahmoud Khalil, was arrested, in March. She hasn’t seen him since, and now has a one-month-old son.
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