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First Muslim woman to serve as a United States federal judge. [24] Robert D. Crane – former foreign policy advisor; author [25] Sada Cumber – first US envoy to the Organisation of the Islamic Conference [26] Hamida Dakane – first Black and first Muslim to serve in the North Dakota House of Representatives [27]
This is a list of Arab Americans. It includes prominent and notable Arab American ... founding Executive Director of largest Muslim civil rights ...
This is a list of Muslim members of the United States Congress. As of 2025, only six Muslim Americans have ever been elected to Congress, the first being Keith Ellison in 2006. [1] Five Muslims currently serve in Congress, all in the House of Representatives. All but one are members of the Democratic Party.
The following animated videos depict the experiences of nine Muslim Americans from across the country who differ in heritage, age, gender and occupation. Relaying short anecdotes representative of their everyday lives, these Muslim Americans demonstrate both the adversities and blessings of Muslim American life. By Emily Kassie. April 6, 2015
In a 2007 survey titled Muslim Americans: Middle Class and Mostly Mainstream, the Pew Research Center found Muslim Americans to be "largely integrated, happy with their lives, and moderate with respect to many of the issues that have divided Muslims and Westerners around the world." [223]
Being American, like 6-year-old Wadea Al-Fayoume was, does not protect us from the stigma of being Palestinian or Arab, Muslim and from the “Middle East.” Rather, these latter identities keep ...
[1] [2] On November 6, 2018, four additional Arab Americans, all of whom are female, were elected to the U.S. House of Representatives: Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, Ilhan Omar, Donna Shalala, and Rashida Tlaib. Tlaib and Omar were also the first Muslim women in Congress. [3] The U.S. House of Representatives currently has five Arab-American members.
Members of the Muslim and Arab American community endorsed former President Donald Trump during an event in The Bronx on Thursday morning.. About 20 community leaders and Imams — joined by ...