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From ICE detention to job termination, activists Mahmoud Khalil and Karen Attiah speak out in D.C.

Sep 21, 2025

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Bex Heimbrock

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Activist Mahmoud Khalil and writer Karen Attiah addressed a crowd of over 100 people at Busboys and Poets — a chain restaurant with the goal of inspiring social change — in Washington D.C. on Thursday night. The two spoke in conversation ranging from Khalil’s time in ICE detention and Attiah’s recent termination from the Washington…