A San Francisco State professor of Arabic has been banned from re-entering the US, despite his long-term residence in America, his American wife and child, and his job teaching Arabic at an American university:
But the Egyptian-born academic got a rude awakening June 20 when a consular official, without explanation, stamped "canceled" on his temporary visa and refused to issue another visa. Instead, Salama said, he was fingerprinted, questioned and told he could not return to the United States until he received security clearance…
Salama, 38, began teaching at San Francisco State a year ago. He arrived in the United States seven years ago, has an American wife and two children, and received his doctorate in comparative literature from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
