The first Palestinian member of the House of Representatives, elected with 84% of the vote, Rashida Tlaib managed to move the lines on the Palestinian issue. And fights tooth and nail, with three other elected Democrats, to obtain the dismissal of Donald Trump.
It is a border state of Canada, best known for its once-booming auto industry. The 2008 election of a Palestinian-born Muslim woman to the Michigan House of Representatives revealed another facet: her strong Arab-American community.
"Miss First" elected with 84% of the votes
The eldest daughter of a couple of modest Palestinian workers, Rashida Tlaib is the only one of four siblings to have pursued studies: Political Science at Wayne State University, then Law at Western Michigan University. Far from the Ivy League – the eight private universities in the Northeast, the most prestigious in the country – and its intelligentsia. His rise is none the less irresistible.
The lawyer is immediately obliged to deny the image of the submissive Arab woman to whom some seem ready to assign
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