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Line 10: ==Early life== Salam was born in Brooklyn. His parents are Bangladeshi-born Salam was born in Brooklyn. His parents were [[Bangladesh]]i immigrants who had arrived in New York in 1976; his father was an accountant. He attended [[Stuyvesant High School]] (where he was head of the debate team) and matriculated at [[Cornell University]] (where he was designated a Telluride Scholar by the [[Telluride Association]]) before transferring to [[Harvard]] {{Citation needed\|date=September 2010}}. As an undergraduate Salam was a member of the [[Signet Society]] and interned at ''[[The New Republic]]''.<ref>[http://www.thedailystar.net/forum/2008/august/rising.htm "New Star Rising", Razib Khan profiles Reihan Salam ] at [[The Daily Star (Bangladesh)]]</ref> immigrants who arrived in New York in 1976; his father is an accountant and his mother is a dietician. Salam attended Stuyvesant High School and Cornell University (where he was a TASPer) before transferring to Harvard, where he was a member of the Signet Society. He graduated from Harvard in 2001 with a degree in Social Studies.<ref>[http://www.thedailystar.net/forum/2008/august/rising.htm "New Star Rising", Razib Khan profiles Reihan Salam ] at [[The Daily Star (Bangladesh)]]</ref> Salam is a [[Islam\|Muslim]]. He has also remarked that "I am not an expert on Islam" and "I wouldn’t say I’m a very religiously observant person".<ref name=cordoba>[http://www.nationalreview.com/agenda/243812/brief-note-re-cordoba-house-controversy-reihan-salam Brief Note Re: the Cordoba House Controversy]</ref>

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