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‘We won’t stop’: The 24 hours Columbia etched a new Gaza protest legacy

Inside a movement that took over a university building and lost its encampment within 24 hours – yet refuses to die.

Columbia protesters at the university's campus in Morningside Heights, New York City [Yasmeen Altaji/Al Jazeera]

In New York, a head-to-head House race foreshadows national elections

A special election in Long Island is seen as a precursor for the battle to control the US House of Representatives.

Yard signs for Mazi Pilip and Tom Suozzi sit planted in the snow beside a Long Island road.

‘Career on the line’: US students fear job backlash for protesting Israel

Pro-Palestinian students say the threat of losing future opportunities has had a silencing effect on their activism.

Students rally in front of a bronze statue of a seated woman with a crown of laurel leaves and a staff, to show support for Palestinian rights on Columbia University's campus.

World premiere play spotlights US Assyrian diaspora community

Martin Yousif Zebari unveils his first play, a look at family dynamics in the aftermath of the 2003 US invasion of Iraq.

Martin Yousif Zebari looks out a window