US public records confirm that mother of Salafist presidential candidate Hazem Salah Abu-Ismail held a US citizenship according to The New York Times . The chaos over the nationality of Salafist presidential candidate Hazem Salah Abu-Ismail's mother took a new twist when The New York Times claimed that public records prove she became a US citizen before she died. This new prove would disqualify Abu-Ismail from running for president because lectoral rules bar candidates with a parent who holds citizenship in any other country even if both parents are also citizens of Egypt. A spokesman for Abu-Ismail's campaign said it had sent a delegation to inspect the documents. The documents seen by the Times were a "report from a database of public records that included an address in Santa Monica, California, for his mother, Nawal Abel-Aziz Nour, as well as her name on a Los Angeles voter registration list."