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Shayeza Walid

In New York City, US, reporting on the Middle East

Shayeza Walid is a graduate student at Columbia Journalism School.

NYPD officers in riot gear march onto Columbia University campus, where pro-Palestinian students are barricaded inside a building and have set up an encampment, in New York City on April 30, 2024. Columbia University normally teems with students, but a "Free Palestine" banner now hangs from a building where young protesters have barricaded themselves and the few wandering through campus generally appear tense. Students here were among the first to embrace the pro-Palestinian campus encampment movement, whic

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Nearly 300 arrested as NYPD clears Gaza protest from Columbia University