(Religion News) Tahanie Aboushi describes herself as “35, going on 50.” But friends disagree, calling her “bold” and “hilarious.” To survive the next four months, the civil rights attorney likely will need answer both those descriptions, and then some: Aboushi is one of eight candidates running to be the next district attorney of Manhattan.
To win, she will need to convince New Yorkers to vote for a first-time officeholder who would also be the country’s first hijab-wearing DA.
“Tahanie is New York personified. She is kind, humble, but also unbought and unbossed,” said Linda Sarsour, the Women’s March organizer and progressive icon, who is a childhood friend.
Aboushi comes from the same Palestinian community as Sarsour — Aboushi’s grandmother’s apartment in the wildly diverse Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn was downstairs from Sarsour’s mother’s.
