‘Healthcare not bombs’: How Gaza shaped Adam Hamawy’s path to US Congress
Summary
Adam Hamawy, an Egyptian-American surgeon and U.S. Army veteran, won election to represent New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District and is set to become the state’s first Muslim member of Congress. The article says medical missions to Gaza in 2024 and 2025 shaped his campaign, which focused on health care and U.S. support for Israel; Hamawy also spoke about anti-Muslim hostility during the campaign.Key Facts
- Hamawy was born in Egypt, moved to New Jersey as a baby and grew up in Old Bridge.
- He studied at Rutgers University and New Jersey Medical School and served eight years as a U.S. Army officer.
- In 2004, while deployed in Baghdad as a combat surgeon, he treated then-Army helicopter pilot Tammy Duckworth after her aircraft was shot down.
- Duckworth said Hamawy saved her life and used a vascular procedure that helped prevent her from becoming a triple amputee.
- Hamawy retired from the Army as a lieutenant colonel in 2011 and later took part in medical missions in Haiti, Jordan, Lebanon and Gaza.
- The article says Hamawy took part in medical missions to Gaza in 2024 and 2025 and later entered politics.
- His campaign used the slogan “healthcare not bombs” and criticized U.S. funding and medical debt.
- The article reports that Hamawy faced criticism over a past association with a sheikh later convicted of seditious conspiracy, and that he described campaign attacks as anti-Muslim.
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