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Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir (Somali: Bilqis Abdul Qaadir; Arabic: بلقيس عبد القادر) (born 11 November 1990) is an American former collegiate basketball player. She was notable for playing basketball while wearing a hijab, a headscarf for Muslim women.
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]
Kulsoom Abdullah was born in Kansas City, Missouri and grew up in Okeechobee, Florida.She frequently visited Pakistan while growing up and speaks Pashto. [3] She has a Master's degree and PhD in electrical and computer engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. [4]
Great athletes have been born all across America. Serena Williams may have gotten her start on tennis courts in Compton, but she was born in Michigan. Take a look below and see the most famous ...
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Ibtihaj Muhammad (born December 4, 1985) is an American sabre fencer, author, entrepreneur and Olympic medalist.At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she became the first American woman to compete in the Olympics in hijab, the first American Muslim woman to win an Olympic medal, [1] and the first Black woman to win an Olympic medal in the sabre event, when she won bronze in the women’s saber team event.
N.C. State's Jannah Eissa and UC Irvine's Diaba Konate are bringing visibility and inspiration to some Muslim women by wearing hjiabs while they play basketball. “Representation really matters ...
Mujaddid Ahmed Ijaz [47] – Pakistani-American experimental physicist noted for his role in discovering new isotopes Mojib Latif – German meteorologist and oceanographer of Pakistani descent Hafiz Saleh Muhammad Alladin – Indian astronomer, professor at Osmania University, Hydrabad, India