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Columbia Student Says Sheherazad Jaafari Doesn’t Belong At Public-Policy School

Jesse Singal speaks with Haya Dweidary, a former Columbia student who told an administrator not to admit Sheherazad Jaafari.

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About five months ago, Haya Dweidary, a 27-year-old graduate student at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, was approached by an administrator and asked what she knew about Sheherazad Jaafari, who had applied to the prestigious two-year program.

Jaafari, 22, was at the time a press aide to Syrian...

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