Momodou Taal, whose student visa was revoked because of his involvement in anti-Israel campus protests, has fled the US to dodge arrest by authorities. A Cornell University student whose student ...

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He studied Arabic and Sharia law in Cairo. And when war broke out in Gaza, Mr. Taal, 31, found himself increasingly drawn to the protests on Cornell’s campus, he said in a phone interview this week.

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Cornell students and faculty alike have supported Momodou Taal since the Africana graduate student first became the center of attention in a student-lead Israel-Palestine protest. Taal ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The legal fight of Momodou Taal, a pro-Palestinian activist and international graduate student, began in court on Tuesday as a federal judge heard the first arguments of ...

The 31-year-old Taal has been outspoken in opposition to the U.S. and Israel’s role in the war in Gaza, twice being suspended by Cornell since April 2024. Before Taal filed the lawsuit against ...