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by Reuters and Algemeiner Staff
Relatives of Rashida Tlaib, who is set to become the first Muslim woman to join the US Congress, distribute sweets as they celebrate her election victory, in the village of Beit Ur al-Fauqa in the West Bank, Aug. 8, 2018. Photo: Reuters / Mohamad Torokman.
Sharing smiles and hugs, the extended family of Rashida Tlaib, who is set to become the first Muslim woman to join the US Congress, celebrated her election victory on Wednesday in the courtyard of their West Bank house.
Tlaib’s grandmother, aunts and uncles welcomed neighbors in the village of Beit Ur al-Fauqa in the West Bank, who gathered near their single-story stone house beside a grove of olive trees to congratulate them on the historic win.
“This makes us proud — as the Tlaib family, residents of Beit Ur, as Palestinians, as Arabs and as Muslims, that a simple girl reaches such a position,” said her uncle, Bassam Tlaib.
Tlaib’s family said the soon-to-be congresswoman held her wedding in Beit Ur al-Fauqa in 1997 and last visited the village in 2006.
The oldest of 14 children born to a family of Palestinian immigrants, Tlaib is a Detroit native. Her father worked at a Ford Motor Company plant in the city, home of the US car industry, and she became the first Muslim woman elected to the state legislature.
On Tuesday she won her district’s Democratic nomination for Michigan’s 13th Congressional district, encompassing parts of Detroit and surrounding suburbs and home to one of the largest Muslim and Arab-American populations in the United States.
Since no one ran in the Republican primary, Tlaib is poised to win the seat.
