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Ibraheem S. Samirah (born August 20, 1991) is an American dentist and politician serving as a State Delegate from Virginia. In February 2019, he was elected in a special election to the Virginia House of Delegates for the 86th district. Samirah was re-elected to a full term on November 5, 2019. He is a Democrat. He is the youngest elected legislator in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Samirah was born in Chicago, Illinois, as a first generation American with Jordanian-Palestinian parents, on August 20, 1991. Samirah is biracial Afro-Arab. Samirah's parents are children of Palestinian refugees.[2] Growing up in Chicago and its suburbs, he "enjoyed a typical American childhood—watching basketball in the bleachers, riding bikes with my brothers, and then getting around to my homework". His mother was pursuing a special education master's degree while working as a teacher and his father was completing a PhD in economics and public policy, working as an activist, becoming a community leader and registering Muslim voters.
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