A Palestinian you should know: Lara Kiswani
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A Palestinian you should know: Lara Kiswani
Mohammed Khader is the policy advisor for Jeramy Anderson, who is running for mayor of Moss Point, Mississippi.
When Iman Jodeh was elected to Colorado’s House of Representatives in 2020 she became the state’s first Muslim lawmaker.
Serving her second term representing the 13th District of Michigan
Palestinian America Salaam “Sam” Rasoul is running for lieutenant governor of Virginia. He is a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, representing District 11. He took office in 2014, and his term ends in January 2022.
Tahanie Aboushi is in the middle of the race to become Manhattan’s next district attorney.
Phay, who goes by Phayweather on social media, is a hip-hop artist based in East Atlanta and has been creating music for over ten years, alongside creating a clothes and accessories brand titled MAMA. As a big ‘90s R&B fan, Phay likes to incorporate the era’s sounds into his own music. “I try to pay homage to artists so if they were to hear my tracks they would be proud.”
The life and times of a Palestinian punk-rocker-turned-hip-hopper in New York City
Palestinian-American author Susan Muaddi Darraj was featured at the National Book Festival last month for her series: Farah Rocks.
Clarissa now works as a studio musician and has turned her classical oud style into exciting collaborations with artists of many different genres including Massari, Elyanna, Omar Offendum, Mona Haydar, Sandhill, Nasri Atweh, and Rotana. Recently, she produced a joint poetry-oud EP with Palestinian poet Mohammed el-Kurd titled “Bellydancing on Wounds.”
“I think it’s really important to be very vulnerable and very transparent with your pain and with your experiences, so that other people, if they are going through something similar, or if they need to relate to something, they can. I was offering [healing sessions] because of COVID-19. I just wanted to give people a free — because of the economy — a free, safe space if they needed to talk.” - Mama Yaya
I'm from outside the DC area. Ethnically, I’m half Palestinian half Lebanese. Just a little background on myself, I’m an artist. I make hip hop with indie pop vibes to it. I started making music about 2 years ago and [I] have 3 songs out right now. I just released my song Maybe which was release just a month ago.
“So originally I'm from Columbus, Ohio. That's where I was born and raised, but when I was 18, this was after I graduated high school, I decided to move [to Chicago] and it was a really, it was an impulse decision.”- Amira Jazeera