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Spotlight On Representative Alabas Farhat

Jul 22, 2026

by Liz Gullett

As MLC’s Communications and Social Media Manager, Liz Gullett keeps clients informed and up-to-date on the goings on in Lansing and the Capitol.

Representative Alabas Farhat (D-Dearborn) is serving his second term in the Michigan House of Representatives.

Biography 

Before his election to the House, he graduated from the University of Michigan-Dearborn with a bachelor’s degree in public health and a master’s in public policy at the University of Michigan’s Ford School of Public Policy.

District

The 3rd House District includes east and central Dearborn and northwest Detroit.

Committees 

    • Rules, minority vice chair
    • Appropriations
      • Joint Capital Outlay subcommittee
    • Joint Committee on Administrative Rules

Related posts:

  1. Spotlight on House Speaker Joe Tate
  2. Spotlight on Senate Republican Leader Aric Nesbitt
  3. Spotlight on House Republican Leader Matt Hall
  4. Spotlight on Senator Sarah Anthony

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