This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman - Hardcover

Omar, Ilhan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1787383415 ISBN 13: 9781787383418

Verlag: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, 2020

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Ilhan Omar’s career is a collection of historic firsts: she is the first refugee, the first Somali-American and one of the first two Muslim women to serve in the United States Congress. Against a xenophobic and divisive administration, she has risen to global fame as a powerful voice in the Democratic Party’s new progressive chorus of congresswomen of colour. 'This Is What America Looks Like' is a tale of the aspirations, disappointments, successes and surprises in the life of an immigrant and Muslim in the US today. This is Omar’s story told on her own terms: from a childhood in Mogadishu and four long years at a Kenyan refugee camp, to her arrival in America--penniless and speaking only Somali--and her triumphant election to the US House of Representatives. In the face of merciless slander and constant attacks from opponents in both parties, Omar continues to speak up for her beliefs. Courageous, hopeful and defiant, her memoir is marked by her irrepressible spirit, even in the darkest of times.

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Ilhan Omar became the United States' first Somali-American legislator in 2016 when she was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives. Two years later she was elected to Congress as the Representative for Minnesota's 5th district. She is a mother of three and tweets as @IlhanMN.

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• Verlag: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1787383415
• ISBN 13: 9781787383418
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
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