Word: el-gaili
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Halfway across the world, Ahmed el-Gaili, who is slated to graduate this spring from Harvard Law School, is now taking classes at a London law school and hoping to join his class in January...
...El-Gaili is from Sudan, one of seven countries the State Department has deemed a state sponsor of terrorism...
With a newly-long wait for a visa, el-Gaili spent much of September living in hotels, hoping to receive his visa and return to Harvard for his third year of law school...
...very frantic at the end of September. I was bombarding [the consulate] with almost daily letters and faxes,” el-Gaili says. “Life sort of normalized when I realized, ‘I’m not going back to Harvard...
...It’s definitely not the same U.S. I came to nine years ago—not the same open welcoming society, at least to people from my part of the world,” El-Gaili said...