{"id":25772,"date":"2018-12-16T15:22:46","date_gmt":"2018-12-16T15:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25772"},"modified":"2018-12-16T15:22:46","modified_gmt":"2018-12-16T15:22:46","slug":"rashida-tlaib-to-wear-palestinian-dress-at-us-congress-swear-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25772","title":{"rendered":"Rashida Tlaib to wear Palestinian dress at US Congress swear-in"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rashida Tlaib, the Democratic representative-elect from Michigan, has announced she will wear a traditional Palestinian thobe to her official swearing-in ceremony to US Congress next month. <\/p>\n

“Sneak peek: This is what I am wearing when I am sworn into Congress. #PalestinianThobe #ForMyYama,” Tlaib wrote in an Instagram post on Friday. Yama means mother in Arabic.<\/p>\n

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A thobe is a traditional ankle-length garment worn across the Arab world and in some parts of Africa<\/a>. Palestinian thobes are known for their red\u00a0embroidered<\/span> patterns. However, each city in historical Palestine<\/a> traditionally has its own unique style. <\/p>\n

Tlaib is the first Palestinian American woman to serve in US<\/a> Congress. Along with Somali American Ilhan Omar, the two became the first Muslim women elected to Congress last November.<\/p>\n

Tlaib took Michigan’s 13th congressional district in a race in which she was the sole major party candidate.<\/p>\n

Omar won Minnesota’s strongly Democratic fifth congressional district, replacing the first Muslim congressman, Keith Ellison, who vacated his seat to run in the state’s attorney general race. <\/p>\n

Tlaib, 42, was born in Detroit to Palestinian immigrant parents. Her mother is from the village of Beit Ur al-Fauqa near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank<\/a>, and her father is from Beit Hanina, in occupied East Jerusalem<\/a>.<\/p>\n

She made history in 2008 by winning a seat in Michigan’s legislature, becoming the first Muslim woman to do so. <\/p>\n

Her campaign platform included pledges to secure a $15 minimum wage, preventing cuts to welfare programmes such as Medicare and Social Security, as well as stopping tax relief to large corporations. <\/p>\n

Earlier this month Tlaib told The Intercept that she plans to lead a congressional delegation to the Israeli-occupied West Bank, breaking from traditional trips to Israel<\/a> for newly elected members taking place for decades, sponsored by the pro-Israel lobby group American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC<\/span>). <\/p>\n

She said she hopes to offer her fellow freshmen members of Congress an alternative introduction to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to The Intercept, her group will focus on issues such as Israel’s detention of Palestinian children, education<\/a>, access to clean water, and poverty.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rashida Tlaib, the Democratic representative-elect from Michigan, has announced she will wear a traditional Palestinian thobe to her official swearing-in ceremony to US Congress next month. “Sneak peek: This is what I am wearing when I am sworn into Congress. #PalestinianThobe #ForMyYama,” Tlaib wrote in an Instagram post on Friday. Yama means mother in Arabic.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":25773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}