It's an unlikely friendship. Laila Alawa is a 25-year-old Muslim woman living in D.C. Troy Pflum is a 49-year-old Lutheran man living in Wisconsin. She's a moderate who voted for Hillary. He's a ...

Alawa is 24 (not 25, as is often stated), and her move to the U.S. occurred well before the recent mass exodus of refugees from the strife in Syria. Sources. Hasson, Peter.

Laila Alawa is just 24, but she runs a website called The Tempest that’s garnering 500,000 hits per month. Alawa launched the site in 2013 to give a voice to the cultures of those from ...

On Sept. 11, 2001, Laila Alawa was at home with her family in upstate New York. Alawa, who is Muslim, was 10 years old at the time. Now, at 20, she reflects on that day — and how it changed her ...