Efforts to reach Belal Badawi were not immediately successful Wednesday evening. “I grieve alongside family and friends of Kareem in their heartbreaking loss,” UA president Stuart R. Bell said.

Kareem Badawi was a freshman at UA and had only spent a semester on campus. Badawi was from Baton Rouge and graduated from high school in 2024. He was also a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity at UA.

T he death of Kareem Badawi, an 18-year-old freshman at the University of Alabama, has left the Episcopal School community in Baton Rouge grieving the loss of an exceptional young man.

Kareem Badawi was a young man living his dreams as a freshman at the University of Alabama. But his life was tragically cut short by the New Year’s Day terrorist attack that killed the 18-year ...

DREW HAWKINS, BYLINE: Kareem Badawi just finished his first semester at the University of Alabama, where he was studying engineering. His father, Belal Badawi, says he was an 18-year-old full of life.

University of Alabama freshman Kareem Badawi was among the 14 people killed when an armed man drove a rented truck into a crowd in New Orleans. Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ...

Kareem Badawi, who graduated from Episcopal in Baton Rouge and went to the University of Alabama was a trusted friend and selfless teammate, people who knew him said.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - The University of Alabama’s president announced on Wednesday night that one of the college’s students was one of 15 people killed in the New Orleans attack on New Year’s Day. In a ...

Kareem Badawi, 18, was a freshman at the University of Alabama. He went there with Ethan Ott, his best friend and football teammate from Episcopal High School in Baton Rouge.

Kareem Badawi, 18, was a freshman at the University of Alabama. He went there with Ethan Ott, his best friend and football teammate from Episcopal High School in Baton Rouge.

Kareem Badawi, who graduated from Episcopal in Baton Rouge and went to the University of Alabama was a trusted friend and selfless teammate, people who knew him said.