Christopher Alam

6 days ago | americancommunitymedia.org | Christopher Alam

SAN FRANCISCO — The streets of the Tenderloin bustled as residents packed together to celebrate Eid, the Muslim holiday marking the end of Ramadan, at an annual street fair earlier this month. The scene, more akin to an Arab-style “souk,” or marketplace, marked a sharp contrast in a neighborhood notorious for its sizable unhoused population, drug use and crime.

6 days ago | kalw.org | Christopher Alam

This story aired in the April 17, 2025 episode of Crosscurrents. Sitting just inside the Golden Gate, Angel Island has become a tourist destination. But it has a complicated history as an immigration station. In 1910, The government built a detainment center to control the flow of Chinese immigrants into the U.S. If you visit today you can still see hundreds of poems that Chinese immigrants carved into the barrack walls. These poems are a century old, but the feelings they evoke are still poignant.

3 weeks ago | el-observador.com | Christopher Alam

Christopher AlamAmerican Community MediaThe Trump administration’s latest moves to deport Mahmoud Khalil over first amendment-protected speech — and more recently, Brown University professor Dr. Rasha Alawieh and Georgetown graduate student Badar Khan Suri — has imperiled the rights and legal status of communities nationwide.

3 weeks ago | el-observador.com | Christopher Alam

Christopher AlamAmerican Community MediaLas últimas medidas de la administración Trump para deportar a Mahmoud Khalil por su discurso protegido por la Primera Enmienda —y más recientemente, a la profesora de la Universidad Brown, Dra. Rasha Alawieh, y al estudiante de posgrado de Georgetown, Badar Khan Suri— han puesto en peligro los derechos y el estatus legal de comunidades de todo el país.

1 month ago | news-journal.com | Christopher Alam

For student activists, visa-holders and immigrants, history is repeating itself. The Trump administration’s latest moves to deport Mahmoud Khalil over first amendment-protected speech — and more recently, Brown University professor Dr. Rasha Alawieh and Georgetown graduate student Badar Khan Suri — has imperiled the rights and legal status of communities nationwide.