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deportation of Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist and professor at Brown University’s medical school, has sparked concerns about the treatment of H-1B visa holders under the Trump administration. Despite holding a valid H-1B visa and a federal court order temporarily blocking her removal, Alawieh was deported, raising questions about the future of employment-based visas in the United States. Dr. Alawieh, a Lebanese citizen, was detained at Boston Logan International Airport after returning from a family visit to Lebanon. She was held for 36 hours before being put on a flight to Paris, even though US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) had been ordered to give 48 hours' notice before any such action. CBP has not provided an explanation for why the court order was disregarded. Legal representatives for Dr. Alawieh and her cousin, Yara Chehab, have filed cases against senior Trump administration officials, including Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, seeking answers on whether her deportation signals a policy shift against H-1B visa holders.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Israel’s demand for the demilitarization of southern Syria near its border presents a severe challenge for the country’s new rulers, who three months ago brought down the Assad family’s regime.

Benjamin Netanyahu landed in Washington in early February, he became the first world leader to visit the U.S. after Trump took the Oval office in January.

As the dust settles on the revelation that HSBC iswinding down its M&A and equity capital markets (ECM) businesses everywhere but Asia and the Middle East, it's becoming apparent that almost no one in the firm had any idea what was about to hit them. 

Saudi Arabia’s top diplomat has visited Lebanon for the first time in a decade following years of strained relations between the oil-rich kingdom and the tiny Mediterranean country

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. There is cause for relief and hope as Israel, and Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire that brings a pause to the most catastrophic 15-month conflict.

Husham Al-Husainy, who is an Iraqi-American imam from Michigan has been eventually selected to deliver a benediction at US President- elect Donald Trump's inauguration on the date of January 20 of the year 2025, reported Fox News.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The broad terms of the cease-fire deal that Israel and Hamas finally agreed to Wednesday after a year of fruitless negotiations aren’t substantially different from those that were available to both sides eight months ago. What changed is everything else.

American detainees in Afghanistan by offering to free Muhammad Rahim al-Afghani, a high-profile al-Qaeda operative and close aide of Osama bin Laden, currently held at Guantanamo Bay.

General Joseph Aoun, the country's army chief, as president, effectively ending a two-year presidential vacancy. This election marks a pivotal moment in Lebanon's political landscape, with potential implications for regional dynamics.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. An Israel-Lebanon cease-fire that calmed months of cross-border bloodshed is being strained as the two sides accuse each other of violations and the U.S. races to make sure the deal holds.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The greatest gift from Benjamin Netanyahu to Joe Biden was making the departing American president’s Middle East legacy seem much better than it is. And he did it by ignoring Mr.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. TEL AVIV—Over the past year, Israel’s military has proved adept at taking down threats to the country’s security. After the initial shock of the Oct.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Iran faces a tough year of confrontation with the incoming Trump administration while holding an exceptionally weak hand after 2024 left it with an acute economic crisis at home and setbacks in the Middle East. The new U.S.

Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has held up for over a month, even as its terms seem unlikely to be met by the agreed-upon deadline. The deal struck on November 27 to halt the war required Hezbollah to immediately lay down its arms in southern Lebanon and gave Israel 60 days to withdraw its forces there and hand over control to the Lebanese army and UN peacekeepers.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Of late, I am hearing Indians say an un-Indian thing. When they think about a world in turmoil—the devastating wars in the Levant and Ukraine, the cruelty of militias in Africa, the upheavals in Bangladesh, the recent collapse of Sri Lanka’s economy, and of Afghanistan and Pakistan, which do not require descriptors—I hear them say, “Actually, we are quite lucky to be Indians." This sentiment is new.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. TEL AVIV—Since the Hamas attacks on Oct. 7, 2023, Israel has dealt a series of damaging setbacks to its most dangerous regional adversaries.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The consequences of Bashar al-Assad’s fall from power in Syria will reverberate for years across the Middle East, but one great fact is already clear. The Obama era in Middle Eastern history has, thankfully, come to an end.