Momodou Taal

Momodou Taal is a writer and researcher currently in the fourth year of his PhD at Cornell University. He is the host of the podcast The Malcolm Effect, author of the book The Malcolm Effect Revisited, and a founder of the website Vox Ummah.

Momodou Taal, center, is pictured at a pro-Palestinian encampment at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, Thursday, April 25, 2024.

I Fled the US to Escape the Security State. Instead, It Followed Me. I Fled the US to Escape the Security State. Instead, It Followed Me.

My recent detention at Heathrow shows that the architecture of state repression knows no borders.

Feb 11, 2026 / Momodou Taal

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