For the first time in decades, the mayoral race in Dearborn is wide open, creating an opportunity for the Detroit suburb known as the capital of Arab America to elect its first Arab-American mayor.John B O’Reilly has had the seat since 2007, having ascended to it after being city council president for 17 years after the death of then-mayor Michael Guido who had been in office since 1986. An undisclosed illness has seen O’Reilly fade away from public life in the past year.Lebanese American Abdullah Hammoud is hoping to become the city’s first Arab, Muslim and person of colour to be Dearborn mayor if he wins the election next Tuesday.
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