“Teaching Gandhi in a Texas Detention Center,” by Nader Hashemi, New Lines Magazine, April 23, 2025.

A visit to the ICE facility housing the Georgetown postdoctoral fellow Badar Khan Suri, whose case parallels those of Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk.

There are so many illegal detention stories. I’m sharing this particular one because of the man’s inspired response to his incarceration. I’m also proud to have earned my PhD from an institution that has been standing up to the administration’s attacks on higher education, Georgetown University.