The Exile

In January, 2017 — before Trump’s inauguration — physician Khaled Almilaji spent a week in Syria to check on his many humanitarian projects, leaving his pregnant wife Jehan behind in the United States. Expecting to return well before Trump’s inauguration, Khaled discovered at the airport that his visa — along with those of 40 other medical students, mostly from the Middle East — had been revoked in the month before Trump took office.

Source: Toronto Life
Published: Aug 16, 2017
Length: 16 minutes (4,092 words)
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