Dearborn

He rose through faculty and administrative ranks in Michigan for more than 20 years before being appointed vice president for research in 2015, a role in which he oversaw a $1.5-billion research portfolio across campuses in Ann Arbor, Dearborn and Flint.

In 2021, Zia graduated from the University of Michigan–Dearborn with a degree in software engineering.

Nearly 70% of voters in Dearborn, Mich., traditionally a Democratic stronghold that is home to the largest concentration of Muslims in the country, voted for President Trump or Green Party candidate Jill Stein last year.

Under the cover of night, our queer forebears squeezed through a narrow passage down Tooker Alley in Towertown between Dearborn and State Streets.

This messaging is present at a truly staggering scale: boxes of propagandistic newspapers from South Korea and China, Arabic-language flyers from mysterious groups distributed around Dearborn, and Haitian vaccine conspiracists on YouTube.