Farahnaz "Farah" Karimi is an Iranian-Dutch politician.
22 Facts About Farah Karimi
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Farah Karimi was a member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands between 1998 and 2006 for GreenLeft.
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Farah Karimi received primary education and secondary education in Tehran between 1966 and 1978.
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Since her youth, Farah Karimi has been involved in the resistance against Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi and campaigned for democracy and human rights in Iran.
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Farah Karimi saw the Iranian Revolution as a moment to put a form of Islamic socialism into practice.
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In 1980, Farah Karimi left the university to join the Mojahedin-e Khalgh, a left-Islamistic resistance movement against the Islamic Republic government.
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In Hamburg, Germany, Farah Karimi attended a college for foreign students in 1985.
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Between 1983 and 1988 Farah Karimi was active in different refugee groups in Germany and France.
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In 1989, Farah Karimi went to the Netherlands with her family.
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At the University of Groningen, Farah Karimi studied "International Relations and International Organizations".
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In 1993, Farah Karimi began to work in the semi-public sector.
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Farah Karimi was a member of the committee for justice.
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Farah Karimi questioned the Minister Jozias van Aartsen on the American Service-Members' Protection Act, which obliges the American government to free American citizens who are brought to the International Criminal Court in The Hague -even with the use of violence- and Minister Ben Bot on the Dutch support for the Iraq War.
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Farah Karimi took the initiative to support free Iranian Media, Rooz and Radio Zamaneh, with 15 million euros.
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Farah Karimi did not put herself forward as a candidate in the 2006 elections.
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Farah Karimi was the Executive Director of Oxfam Novib until 2018.
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Farah Karimi is a board member of the broadcaster VPRO and the IDH.
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Farah Karimi was interrogated at the Teheran airport and information was copied from her diary.
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Farah Karimi wrote about it in her books "Battlefield Afghanistan" and "The Secret of Fire".
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In early 2007, Farah Karimi worked for the United Nations Development Programme, where she was a senior consultant for the UNDP in Afghanistan for project SEAL.
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Farah Karimi writes for Rooz, a free, Persian online newspaper.
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Farah Karimi has one son with her first husband, who was born when Karimi fled from Iran.