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- A surgeon who treated wounded Palestinians during Israel's war on Gaza has won a seat in the US House of Representatives. With this success,.
- Democratic candidate Adam Hamawi defeated Republican candidate Greg Melley to win the twelfth congressional district in Tuesday's midterm el.
- Adam Hamawi was participating in electoral politics for the first time. He says that the experience of working in Gaza is what made him ente.
A surgeon who treated wounded Palestinians during Israel's war on Gaza has won a seat in the US House of Representatives. With this success, he became the first Muslim member of Congress to be elected from New Jersey.
Democratic candidate Adam Hamawi defeated Republican candidate Greg Melley to win the twelfth congressional district in Tuesday's midterm elections. He will replace Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman, who has decided to step down.
Adam Hamawi was participating in electoral politics for the first time. He says that the experience of working in Gaza is what made him enter politics. "Politics was never my plan," he said in a video released at the launch of his election campaign in January.
According to Al Arabiya, Adam Hamawi was born in Cairo, the capital of Egypt. When he was only seven months old, his family moved to America. His family initially settled in Jersey City, later moving to Old Bridge, New Jersey, where Adam Hamavi grew up.
According to Al-Arabiya, he studied medicine at Rutgers University and later obtained a master's degree in business administration from the same university. He later served as a surgeon in the US Army for eight years. He served nine months at the 31st Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad during the Iraq War.
