He received his green card in 2015. The couple later divorced. In 2018, Mahdawi began studying at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. He transferred to Columbia in 2021.

They said they believed his arrest was related to his acts of protest against the Israel-Hamas war while he was attending Columbia University. Mahdawi is a resident of Hartford in Windsor County.

Student who helped lead Columbia’s pro-Palestinian protests arrested in Vermont at citizenship interview By Paul Heintz Globe Correspondent,Updated April 15, 2025, 9:28 a.m.

A Columbia University student detained by authorities at his naturalization interview is free - for now. A federal judge in Vermont ordered Mohsen Mahdawi released on bond today. He'd been in prison ...

Mohsen Mahdawi can travel from Vermont to attend Columbia University graduation, judge rules By John R. Ellement Globe Staff,Updated May 15, 2025, 3:02 p.m.

Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi — detained by authorities at his naturalization interview — is free for now. He had been in prison for two weeks after his arrest earlier in April.

If you don’t like Columbia University’s principles, it has others. For decades, Columbia rejected the evidence of its political extremism as a conservative smear job and said academic freedom was ...