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Renowned Palestinian poet, author cancels US tour for fear of abduction
28 March 2025 17:27 GMT
Award-winning Palestinian poet and author Mosab Abu Toha said on Friday that he has cancelled all his US speaking events because he "felt unsafe traveling, especially after watching students and university professors abducted on the street just in front of other people".
Abu Toha is the founder of the Edward Said Library in Gaza and has been interviewed by major US news outlets.
"I had 16 events scheduled for the next five weeks (at Stanford, Columbia, NYU, and Cornell among other places). You cannot imagine how much I was waiting to meet you all," he wrote on X.
"I even don’t feel safe going out to pick up my kids from school. These threats made online against me and my family are vile."