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American politician, academic administrator and educator (born 1964)
Several U.S. cities now have Muslim mayors after the 2025 elections: Zohran Mamdani became New York City’s first Muslim mayor (Nov. 2025) and Abdullah Hammoud was re‑elected mayor of Dearborn, Michiga...
Reporting in 2024–2025 shows that four Muslim Americans served in the 119th Congress (André Carson, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Lateefah Simon) and that five individuals have been elected to Congre...
Available reporting indicates a surge in Muslim candidates elected to U.S. office in 2025, with multiple outlets reporting “42 Muslim Americans” won offices across at least nine states and that among ...
Available reporting compiled here does not produce a single, authoritative roster listing every U.S. state with Muslim state legislators in 2025 or an exact per‑state count; instead, multiple articles...
now serves at the state level across —both as state legislators and, more recently, in statewide executive offices—reflecting a broader surge in civic participation reported by advocacy groups and med...
Between 2015 and 2025 Muslim American officeholders moved from sparse, localized representation to a visibly expanding presence that influenced policy debates on immigration, civil rights, and foreign...
Available sources show rising Muslim American representation across local and state offices and a small but growing presence in Congress; reporting notes historic 2025 local wins and that five Muslims...
Muslim-American candidates saw historic statewide and municipal successes in 2025, most notably Ghazala Hashmi’s victory in Virginia’s lieutenant governor race where multiple outlets report she captur...
Coverage of Muslim state legislators in the United States is fragmentary in the provided sources: several outlets report historic individual wins in 2025 (notably New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani an...
Ghazala Hashmi became the first Muslim American woman elected to a statewide office in the United States when she won Virginia’s lieutenant governor race on Nov. 4, 2025; major outlets reported her vi...
Muslim American candidates have seen a marked increase in visible victories in the last decade, capped by high-profile 2025 wins such as Zohran Mamdani’s New York City mayoralty and Ghazala Hashmi’s s...
Between 2015 and 2025, available reporting in the supplied sources identifies at least two Muslim Americans winning statewide offices: Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (elected earlier, servin...
Available reporting in the provided sources highlights landmark 2025 victories for Muslim candidates — notably Ghazala Hashmi’s election as Virginia lieutenant governor, the first Muslim woman to win ...