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Hanadi Nadeem
American politician from Nevada From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Hanadi Nadeem (born 1972) is an American physician and politician serving as a member of the Nevada Assembly since 2024.[1] A member of the Democratic Party, she was elected in 2024 to represent the 34th district, which includes Summerlin in Las Vegas.[2]
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Career
Nadeem was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and raised in Islamabad, Pakistan, in a family of physicians. She initially moved to the United States for her husband’s medical residency in Philadelphia, then the couple moved to Chicago and finally Las Vegas.[2]
Nadeem runs the Shifa Medical Center, a primary care clinic, in Las Vegas.[2]
Nevada House of Representatives
Nadeem ran for the Nevada General Assembly in 2024 to succeed Shannon Bilbray-Axelrod, who unsuccessfully ran for the Clark County Commission. Her Republican opponent, Brandon Davis, paid for billboards depicting Nadeem in a hijab— which she does not normally wear— and claimed she supported terrorist sympathizers over Facebook posts where she had supported Imran Khan.[3] A website launched by Davis linked on the signs described Nadeem a "far left extremist" and utilized the hijab imagery, leading to condemnation by Nadeem, Assembly speaker Steve Yeager, and U.S. senator Catherine Cortez Masto as an Islamophobic attack.[4]
Her election made her the first Muslim woman elected to the Nevada State Legislature.[2]
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Personal life
Nadeem is Muslim and married to internal medicine doctor Nadeem Tariq, with whom she has five children.[2]
Electoral history
References
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