Smitha Khorana

Smitha Khorana is a journalist and fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School. She has contributed to The Guardian, BuzzFeed and Columbia Journalism Review.

She is @smithakhorana on Twitter.

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Chicago, UNITED STATES: A passenger waits in line with his passport 23 January, 2007 before his Mexicana Air flight out of Chicago O'Hare International airport in Chicago, Illinois. As of 23 January, all Americans, Mexicans, Canadians and Bermudians traveling by air to the United States must for the first time carry a passport, said the Department of Homeland Security. The new measure is part of the department's Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, following the recommendations of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States, better known as the 9/11 Commission. It is aimed at making it more difficult for terrorists to enter the country with fake documents. AFP PHOTO/JEFF HAYNES (Photo credit should read JEFF HAYNES/AFP/Getty Images)

Yemeni-American Tells How the U.S. Separated Him From His Wife and Three Children

Smitha Khorana

- Jan. 27, 2016

Qarwash Mohsn Awad lost his passport after his sister, amid nine hours of interrogation at the U.S. Embassy in Yemen, made a statement now said to be false and coerced.

SANAA, YEMEN - OCTOBER 08: Graffities are seen on the wall of the U.S. embassy compound seized by the Houthis after the ambassador and diplomats left the country, in Sanaa, Yemen on October 08, 2015. (Photo by Mohammed Hamoud/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Harrowing Treatment of Yemeni-Americans Demands Government Probe, Groups Say

Smitha Khorana

- Jan. 27, 2016

Civil liberties groups ask the State Department to investigate dubious passport revocations and a failure to evacuate U.S. citizens after Yemen became a war zone.

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