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In 2013 the city council of Hamtramck became the first in the U.S. that was Muslim majority. [6] [7] By 2015 many Muslim women in the Detroit area asked to be able to wear hijab in public places and in any identification photographs. Several municipalities are having to determine how to deal with producing identification photographs of Muslim ...
“This City Council truly represents all the elements of Hamtramck history, whether they are Arabs, South Asian or European descendants,” one expert said. Country's first all-Muslim city ...
As of 2014, Susan Dabaja, the city council president of Dearborn, is a Muslim Arab-American and the majority of the members of the council are Arab. [58] In 2021 Niraj Warikoo of the Detroit Free Press reported that Yemeni Americans in Dearborn were advocating for more of a role in their city's government. [60]
Abraham Aiyash (Arabic: أبراهام عياش) is an American politician serving as a member of the Michigan House of Representatives since 2020, currently representing the 9th district. [1] [2] A member of the Democratic Party, Aiyash serves as the chamber's majority floor leader. [3]
Senior Biden administration aides will travel to Michigan on Thursday to hear directly from Muslim and Arab American community leaders on their top issues and concerns, including, most notably ...
President Joe Biden is sending senior aides to Michigan on Thursday to meet with Arab American and Muslim leaders, according to three people familiar with the matter, as his administration's ...
While Biden made several stops around Saginaw, senior White House officials met privately with Arab American and Muslim community leaders in Chicago, which has a large Palestinian American population.
In 2004, Abdul Latef and Abdul Motlib, two leaders within the Interfaith Partners, played an integral role in resolving a religious controversy [13] in Hamtramck, Michigan. After the al-Islah Islamic Center petitioned and was granted the right to broadcast its call to prayer, or azan, over an outdoor loudspeaker, hundreds of citizens flocked to ...