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Tarek Z. Ismail

Tarek Z. Ismail is Senior Staff Attorney at the CLEAR Project at CUNY School of Law.

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In 2011 Tarek Mehanna, a young Muslim man from Massachusetts, was convicted of giving material support to terrorists. His “crime” was translating readily available Arabic-language texts—an activity that many constitutional experts defended as...
Tarek Z. Ismail

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