Rasha Alawieh is a Lebanese assistant professor at Brown University. She was denied re-entry to the United States in March 2025 and deported to Lebanon, despite having a H-1B visa. A court order temporarily blocking her expulsion was issued, but the government said that officers did not receive it until after her plane had departed. U.S. Department of Defense officials justified Alawieh's denial for re-entry after "sympathetic photos and videos" of Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah, Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei, and Hezbollah militants were found "in her cell phone's deleted items folder", and to have been emailed by Alawieh from her phone.