"Before being elected mayor of Dearborn at the age of 31, Hammoud served in Michigan’s house of representatives as a Democrat until 2021. The son of a small business-owner mother and a truck-driver father, both from southern Lebanon, he too has felt the effects of the deepening conflict in the Middle East.
'Both my father’s and mother’s villages have been bombed by Israeli airstrikes. They have all moved towards Beirut now,' he says. 'That’s the reality for many of us who are Lebanese.'”
~ Stephen Starr
"'It’s very personal’: could Abdullah Hammoud, a Michigan mayor, hold the key to the 2024 elections?
The mayor of Dearborn leads a community that registered unprecedented numbers of ‘uncommitted’ votes in the primary"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/21/abdullah-hammoud-dearborn-mayor-elections
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