Pakistani Muslim immigrant runs for office in California ...Kuwait

The 2016 election of Donald Trump was a turning point for Fauzia Rizvi. When the former president proposed a ban on Muslims entering the United States, the Pakistani immigrant living in southern California felt compelled to take her civic engagement to a higher level. Two years later, she decided to run for public office. In her first conversation with a consultant she had hired, she was told she wouldn't be able to win because of the way she looked, meaning her wearing of a hijab.  "After that, I realised, I'm going to do it. I'm going to push the boundaries," she tells The New Arab. "It was a bit of naivete deciding to run. I did not make it." With a background in w

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