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First-ever Christian woman elected as mayor of Iraqi town
August 02, 2017
Lara Yussif Zara has been chosen as mayor of Algosh, a small town in Iraq’s Nineveh Plains region.
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The unanimous selection of the city council, She is the first Christian woman ever to hold office as a mayor in Iraq. (A Muslim woman, Zekra Alwach, was elected mayor of Baghdad in 2015.)
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