Layla Hedroug is a junior at Yale University on the East Coast. But while classes go on at the Ivy League school, she’s back home with her family in Chicago’s suburbs.
When the latest war broke out in Gaza, Hedroug, 20, started fearing for her safety as a Muslim woman who wears a hijab — perhaps the most visible representation of Islam at a time when anti-Arab hate and Islamophobia are on the rise.
