(National Review) Mapheze Ahmad Yousef Saleh was recently listed as a graduate student at Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS). She also happens to be the daughter of Ahmed Yousef, who served as a top adviser for the terrorist organization Hamas under Ismail Haniyeh’s leadership. It appears the apple didn’t fall far from the tree — Mapheze herself has worked with entities connected with the designated terrorist organization.
An archived biography for Mapheze that was posted on Georgetown’s CCAS’s website states that “she has worked with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Gaza.” Since its violent takeover of the territory in 2007, Hamas has exercised de facto control over Gaza and established a “government” by force. Mapheze’s father Ahmed Yousef served in that Haniyeh-led organization, in a role variably described as “an adviser to Hamas’s Foreign Ministry,” a “senior adviser to the Hamas Foreign Ministry,” “foreign ministry director-general in Gaza’s Hamas government,” or “top political advisor to Haniyeh in the Hamas foreign ministry.”
