The New Arab Staff

Brooke Anderson

Anderson

Brooke is The New Arab's Washington, DC correspondent. She did her BA in Geography of the Middle East at the University of London, SOAS, where she wrote a dissertation on water policy in Syria and Turkey. She spent five years in Damascus, where she studied Arabic and worked as a journalist and eight years in Beirut, where she mainly worked as a journalist. She has won awards for writing about police brutality in the US and Syrian refugees in Lebanon.

 

Areas of focus: US foreign policy, Arab and Muslim communities in the US, political movements in the US

Follow her on Twitter: @Brookethenews

Though the numbers are growing, Muslim Americans still have not reached proportional levels of the current populations in terms of political representation.

13 October, 2026

US Senator Bernie Sanders held a rally over the weekend for House member Aisha Wahab, who is running for her first full congressional term.

05 October, 2026

If a billionaire tax passes in California, it would be the first of its kind in the world, which some hope will give momentum for similar measures elsewhere.

04 October, 2026

"Algorithms can't heal people. People heal people," he told the room of cheering nurses, many of whom have seen cutbacks to their industry.

01 October, 2026

Progressives, including Abdul El-Sayed, are campaigning on Medicare for All, a platform that resonates with millions of Americans who can't afford healthcare.

29 September, 2026

The crew of the USS Lincoln were at sea for record-breaking 286 days, finally disembarking on 1 September in Thailand.

25 September, 2026

El-Sayed's appearance with Harris drew criticism from pro-Palestine supporters, while others defended it as pragmatic coalition-building.

23 September, 2026

"For more than two years, Stanford University and the Santa Clara District Attorney’s office have taken extreme measures to attack us for speaking our minds."

23 September, 2026

Aisha Wahab has been in Congress for less than a month, and she is widely considered a point of pride for the tight-knit Afghan community across the US.

22 September, 2026

US investment in Israeli bonds grew significantly following October 2023, as the Israeli government encouraged international investment into their bonds.

18 September, 2026