When I learned that my friend Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia University ... Beirut that we had frequented after long days teaching refugee children near the Lebanon border.

Mahmoud Khalil was born and brought up in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria, reported Reuters. He has been in the US since ...

Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil declared himself a ... Khalil, a Palestinian refugee born in Syria, framed his detention as an attack on the right to free speech.