Zak Ebrahim (born Abdulaziz El Sayyid Nosair; March 24, 1983 in
Pittsburgh
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,
Pennsylvania
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) is an American peace campaigner and author. He is the son of
El Sayyid Nosair, who
assassinated Meir Kahane, the founder of the
Jewish Defense League and a militant Orthodox
rabbi
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.
Nosair was later convicted of involvement in the
New York City landmark bomb plot.
After several years of hiding his true identity, Abdulaziz changed his name to Zak Ebrahim and began to speak publicly about his father's activities and in favor of peace.
He released his first book, ''The Terrorist's Son: A Story of Choice'' through
Simon & Schuster
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in September 2014.
It won an
American Library Association
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award in 2015.
Other family
Ebrahim's mother, a native of Pittsburgh born Karen Mills, changed her name to Khadijah, when she left Roman Catholicism for Islam, in 1982. He has a brother, and a half-sister from his mother's previous marriage.
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Radio interviewon
NPR, September 18, 2014
Living people
1983 births
American people of Egyptian descent
Writers from Pittsburgh
American activists
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