# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Mahmoud Khalil presents "No Land to Stand On: Notes from Detention"
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 24 Sep, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Thu, 24 Sep, 2026 at 08:30 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: --> UPDATE: WOW. This event reached capacity less than six hours after we announced it—we're going to try and find a bigger venue so we can reopen space to attend. STAY TUNED!
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A revelatory and powerful testament of protest, courage, and imprisonment in America’s deportation regime

This is a ticketed event, with a book purchase required to attend. Special guests TBA.

Co-sponsored by the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism at JHU

“Are you Mahmoud Khalil?” The question marked the start of a politically charged odyssey that took the Palestinian graduate student and legal resident from his pregnant wife and home in New York City, transported him across the country, and locked him up in a Louisiana detention camp under threat of deportation. His “crime”: exercising his right to free speech at Columbia University, where he emerged as a leading voice against the slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. No Land to Stand On is his indelible account, the story of a man confronting the reality that he had become target number one for a lawless regime shredding basic rights.

Drawing on his prison diary and writing in vivid, page-turning detail, Mahmoud Khalil conjures the despair and cruelty of ICE detention, where prisoners can vanish overnight and visiting families risk their own deportation. There is humanity, too, in the men’s acts of care—their mutual help with documents, the prison cake they make after Mahmoud can only follow the birth of his son on the public payphone. In tandem, he tells the multi-generational story of a family expelled from Palestine to a Syrian refugee camp, of flight from Assad’s regime to Lebanon, of arrival in an America that promised permanence and protection, and of the enduring struggle for Palestine.

A work of courage and resistance, _No Land to Stand On _is a call to integrity, to staying true to one’s life’s mission, and to defending the inalienable right to safety, freedom, and a land to stand on.

Mahmoud Khalil is a Palestinian born in a refugee camp in Syria. He fled Assad’s Syria at the age of 18 and holds Algerian citizenship. He studied computer science at the Lebanese American University while working with Syrian refugees in Lebanon, then served as programs manager at the British Embassy in Beirut. He moved to the United States in 2022 to attend Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, where he became a prominent figure during the student protests against the war on Gaza. Mahmoud lives in New York, where he continues to fight against the threat of deportation. _No Land to Stand On _is his first book.

Photos: SWinxy via Wikimedia,  Dean Majd

Book purchase RSVP: https://withfriends.co/event/29158463/mahmoud_khalil_presents_no_land_to_stand_on_notes_from_detention
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/baltimore/mahmoud-khalil-presents-no-land-to-stand-on-notes-from-detention/200030659554300
- **Event Categories**: art, fine-arts, science-fair
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 23

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Baltimore
- **state**: MD
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 3128 Greenmount Avenue, Baltimore, MD, United States, Maryland 21218
- **lat**: 39.327
- **long**: -76.60985
- **full address**: 3128 Greenmount Avenue, Baltimore, MD, United States, Maryland 21218

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Mahmoud Khalil presents "No Land to Stand On: Notes from Detention" being held?
  - **A:** Mahmoud Khalil presents "No Land to Stand On: Notes from Detention" takes place on Thu, 24 Sep, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Thu, 24 Sep, 2026 at 08:30 pm at 3128 Greenmount Avenue, Baltimore, MD, United States, Maryland 21218.
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  - **A:** Mahmoud Khalil presents "No Land to Stand On: Notes from Detention" is organized by Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse.
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