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Mehmet Cengiz Öz [a] (/ m ə ˈ m ɛ t ˈ dʒ ɛ ŋ ɡ ɪ z ɒ z / meh-MET JENG-gihz oz; Turkish: [mehˈmet dʒeɲˈɟiz øz]; born June 11, 1960), also known as Dr. Oz (/ ɒ z /), is an American politician, television presenter, physician, author, professor emeritus of cardiothoracic surgery at Columbia University, and former political candidate.
Dr. Mehmet Oz rarely talks about his faith on the campaign trail – but, if elected, the son of Turkish émigrés could make history as the first Muslim elected to serve in the U.S. Senate.
Raised Baptist, converted to Islam as a teenager. [5] Ilhan Omar: Democratic: MN-05: January 3, 2019: Incumbent 6 years, 15 days First of two Muslim women in Congress. First Muslim to succeed another Muslim. Born to a Muslim family in Somalia and immigrated as a refugee to the United States in 1995. [6] Rashida Tlaib: Democratic: MI-13: January ...
The initial founding group consisted of six Muslim families and some students, which rotated between each other's homes as Masjids. As the Muslim community in the Dallas area grew, it was decided to purchase three frame houses on Bagdad Road in Grand Prairie, Texas, which became the headquarters of IANT.
In 2009, Oprah and her production company helped launch Oz’s own daytime series, “The Dr. Oz Show.” It ran until Oz declared his candidacy for Senate in 2021, airing its final episode in ...
Oz began his TV career as a health expert on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" before launching "The Dr. Oz Show," which ran from 2009 to 2022. The show ended when Oz launched an unsuccessful bid for the U ...
He is best known as Dr. Oz having gained some notoriety on the Oprah Winfrey Show discussing medical matters and health. He most recently ran in the 2022 U.S. Senate election in Pennsylvania where ...
There is a notable population of American Muslims in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.Dallas-Fort Worth is home to sixty-two Sunni mosques and five Shia mosques. [1] [2] According to Abdel Rahman Murphy, a Chicago-born, Irving-based Islamic teacher and Muslim community leader, other U.S.-based Muslims now refer to Dallas as the "Medina of America". [3]