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Feb 3, 2023 · Win McNamee, Getty Images. U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar waves to passersby for support during a voter engagement event on the corner of Broadway and Central Avenues in Minneapolis, on Tuesday, Aug. 9 ...
Aug 15, 2018 · On Sunday, two days before the election, Garza came to Minneapolis from Oakland to stump with Omar at the University of Minnesota. That evening, I met her at a fund-raiser for Omar, at a...
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Apr 13, 2021 · Famous Political Figures. Ilhan Omar. Democratic politician Ilhan Omar arrived in the United States as a refugee and became one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress. Updated:...
Ilhan Omar was eight when Somalia’s civil war broke out, and her family fled to Kenya to live in a refugee camp for the next four years. From there they arrived in the United States in the early ...
Jeff Nelson. On Nov. 8, Ilhan Omar made history when she was elected the first Somali-American lawmaker in the U.S. “My election win offers a counter-narrative to the bigotry in the world,”...
May 13, 2024 · Ilhan Omar (born October 4, 1982, Mogadishu, Somalia) is an American policy analyst, organizer, public speaker, advocate, and politician who began representing Minnesota’s 5th congressional district, which includes Minneapolis and surrounding suburbs, in 2019. Upon her inauguration to the U.S. House of Representatives, she became the first ...
Dec 26, 2018 · ‘It was a rejection of Trump’s way of thinking’: Ilhan Omar on being elected to Congress This article is more than 5 years old The former refugee from Somalia on becoming one of the first ...
