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__FORCETOC__ Cyrus Habib is a politician, lawyer, and professor from the U.S. state of Washington, who is currently a candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Washington. He is one of the 49 members of the Washington State Senate, and, as Senate Democratic Whip, he is one of the top ranking Democrats in the Washington State Legislature. Blind since age 8, he is also the first and only Iranian-American elected to a state office in the United States.〔 ==Early life and education == Habib was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to parents who emigrated from Iran.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url = http://iran.usembassy.gov/cyrus-habib.html )〕 A three-time cancer survivor, he lost his eyesight and became fully blind at age eight. Shortly afterwards, his family moved to Bellevue, Washington, where Habib graduated from the Bellevue International School in 1999. Habib is a Rhodes Scholar, a Truman Scholar, and a Soros Fellow. He received his B.A. from Columbia University, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude and was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. A student of comparative literature, Habib studied under a number of the 20th century's leading literary critics, including Jacques Derrida, Edward Said, Harold Bloom, and Gayatri Spivak.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url= http://www.payvand.com/news/07/feb/1383.html )〕 While an undergraduate, Habib worked in the New York City office of then Senator Hillary Clinton. As a Rhodes Scholar, Habib obtained a Master of Letters in English Literature from St John's College at the University of Oxford, where he was an active member of the Oxford Union, and wrote his masters thesis on Ralph Ellison and Salman Rushdie. Returning to the United States, Habib received his law degree from Yale Law School, where he served as an Editor of the school's flagship law review, the Yale Law Journal, and was mentored and influenced by Judge Guido Calabresi and Professors Akhil Amar and Harold Koh. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cyrus Habib」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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