Abducted: Mohsen Mahdawi
Aug 31, 2025•10 min
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Our guest is Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian-American green card holder abducted by the Trump administration in retaliation for his activism at Columbia University— and later released.
We discuss…
Growing up in a refugee camp
His conversion to Buddhism
His abduction and confinement
Columbia’s abandonment and why he chose to return to Columbia despite it
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