ASRA NOMANI: El-Sayed glides into role as rock star of the hard left's red-green alliance
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Abdul El-Sayed arrived at a Virginia summit as the new face of an influential red-green alliance uniting the hard-left and Arab activists.

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CHANTILLY, Va. — Three days after Abdul El-Sayed won a historic election as America's first Muslim senator, a driver navigating a black luxury GMC Yukon Denali SUV pulled into a parking space beside a side security entrance of an upscale Marriott conference center here in this suburb of Washington, D.C., at 7:39 p.m. on Friday.

A man jumped out of the front passenger seat and opened the rear door, from which El-Sayed emerged for an appearance at the Arab America Foundation's "CONNECT Empowerment Summit," hosted by the 501(c)(3) nonprofit whose leaders had supported his election.