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Senior Fellow @UCLA @BurkleCenter | Teach Nat Security and Civ Lib @ucilaw | @PacCouncil | Huge @Lakers Fan | Board Member @afghan_american and @film2future.

Los Angeles, CA
Joined February 2011
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🚨 Cloudflare just stopped the largest DDoS attack ever — a 29.7 Tbps strike from the AISURU botnet that used up to 4 million hacked devices. It hit 15,000 ports every second for 69 seconds before being blocked. 🔗 Details: thehackernews.com/2025/12/re…
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Semiconductor industry powers nearly everything in today’s world, from smartphones to cars; in 2025, sector’s market cap has surpassed $12T, reflecting critical role in training/deploying AI tools; this @VisualCap graphic visualizes global semiconductor industry by market cap as of Nov. 24, 2025, breaking out data by country
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Join us April 17th, “Combating Global Antisemitism & Islamophobia” with Ludovic Hood, Sr. Advisor, Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, U.S. State Department @HoodLudovicL and Haroon Azar, National Security Expert and Senior Fellow at the Burkle Center @HaroonAzar
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#Afghanistan has just been hit by a devastating earthquake, second one in two months, killing and injuring hundreds of people. Our thoughts are with the families who have lost their loved ones and homes across the Western region.
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Haroon Azar retweeted
With the latest news of #TwitterLayoffs, the TechCrunch news team gathered a list of who's #hiring in tech. Let's take a look here at tech job openings 👇🧵
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Helicopters were unable to land and families whose homes were destroyed in Afghanistan were exposed to the cold, as wind and heavy rain hampered search and rescue operations after the deadly earthquake, a UN emergency response agency said. nyti.ms/3QC63td
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Haroon Azar retweeted
8 minutes and 24 seconds of Kobe Bryant going against every team in the League. (via @sportscenter)
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Legal services for Afghans are a MAJOR need. Along w/our partners from @humanrights1st @gibsondunn @welcomeus @WeTheAction, we launched the Welcome Legal Alliance to connect lawyers w/those needing Pro Bono assistance. Sign up to help + post projects: wetheaction.org/welcomelegal…
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As the U.S. plans to accept 100k Ukrainian refugees, Afghans feel left behind “Right now, Ukraine’s people can go freely to European countries, but where do we flee?” one former interpreter for US troops in hiding in Kabul said. w/ @NajimRah nytimes.com/live/2022/03/24/…
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Our statement in response to today’s Biden Executive Order relating to assets of the Afghan people currently frozen by the US government.
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“I can’t think of a worse betrayal of the people of Afghanistan than to freeze their assets and give it to 9/11 families.” — Barry Amundson, whose brother Craig was killed in the Pentagon on 9/11/01. We could not agree more. This is unacceptable. nytimes.com/2022/02/11/us/po…
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Devastating piece by @christinalamb "In my 35 years as a reporter, I have never seen anything of Afghanistan’s magnitude - 23 million people, more than half the population, face starvation and a million children may die" thetimes.co.uk/article/in-my…
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Family is Forever 🖤
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Haroon Azar retweeted
We really lost America’s grandma and dad in like 1 week 😔 RIP Bob Saget 🕊🤍
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Heavy snow in #Kabul today Temperature might drop to -9 this week I hear stories of people burning furniture, shoes or tyres to keep warm Due to economic collapse, thousands of Afghans are left with nothing to cope with increasing challenges
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Update from San Antonio: the Reward Fund is now $150,000.
Little Lina is still missing. On behalf of our community, we offer deep gratitude to @Icsaonline @SATXPolice @FBI for their tireless response work. We hold Lina, her family and the community in San Antonio in our hearts and prayers tonight. Please call 210-207-7660 w/any info.
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MISSING: newly arrived 3yo Lina Khil was reported missing on Mon. evening at the Villas Del Cabo complex in the 9400 block of Fredericksburg Road, San Antonio, TX. She was wearing a black jacket, red dress & black shoes when she was abducted. PCall SAPD at 210-207-7660 w/info.
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There will come a time when I will see moments such as these and feel joy in remembering Kobe’s genius on the basketball court. But that time has not yet arrived. Still makes me sad.
Seven years ago, Kobe surpassed his childhood idol, MJ, on the NBA all-time scoring list 🐍 (🎥 @Lakers)
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