“I recently exhaled a breath I’ve been holding in for nearly half my life. After applying over a decade ago, I’m finally an American. This means so many things to me. Foremost, it means I can go back to the the Middle East, and see my mama and the family, for the first time in 14 years.” The words appear on a social media post next to a photo of Ubadah Sabbagh, a postdoc at MIT’s McGovern Institute, who in 2021 joined the lab of Guoping Feng, the James W….
