Culpeper GOP hosts Virginia Tech grad from Kuwait

The Culpeper County Republican Committee was recently inspired at Graves Mountain Lodge in Madison.

The source of the inspiration was special speaker Adnan Barqawi, a recent Virginia Tech grad, regimental commander of the Tech Corp of Cadets and undergraduate leader of the year.

The Republican Committee hosted Barqawi, a Kuwait City native, July 24 after hearing him speak at a recent GOP convention in Richmond.

At the recent event in Madison, Barqawi was very well received by the crowd, many of whom were Hokies past and present.

He spoke movingly about his life growing up in Kuwait, traveling to the U.S. and choosing Virginia for his home and education, reports lifelong Republican Barbara Taylor of Culpeper.

In April, Barqawi became a proud U.S. citizen and his love for America was evident during his entire presentation, she said.

During his recent visit to the Piedmont, he was honored to visit James Madison’s Montpelier in Orange with Del. Ed Scott, a Republican from Madison.

This fall, Barqawi embarks on a two-year journey with Teach for America and will serve as an educator in a public school in the Mississippi Delta region. Of the 35,000 to 45,000 Teach for America applicants, only about 10 percent are chosen.

“Adnan Barqawi has quite a compelling story with an extraordinarily bright future ahead,” Taylor said.