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[[Image:Narmin Othman 080329-M-3389K-090 0ZN3U.jpg|thumb|right|Othman in Ramadi, Iraq, in 2008]]
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'''Narmin Othman''' (born c.1948, [[Arabic language|Arabic]]: '''نيرمين عثمان'''; [[Kurdish language|Kurdish]] '''Nermîn Osman''') is the [[Iraq]]i Minister for the Environment in the [[Government of Iraq from 2006|government]] of [[Nouri al-Maliki]], a post she also held in the [[Iraqi Transitional Government]]. She was Minister of Women's Affairs in the [[Iraqi Interim Government]] and a Minister of Education in the [[Iraqi Kurdistan]] Region from 1992 <ref> [http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=17290 America Thanked for Liberating Iraqi Women], ''[[The New York Sun]]'', March 9, 2005, mirrored on ''[[FrontPage Magazine]]'' </ref>
'''Narmin Othman''' (born c.1948, [[Arabic language|Arabic]]: '''نيرمين عثمان'''; [[Kurdish language|Kurdish]] '''Nermîn Osman''') is the [[Iraq]]i Minister for the Environment in the [[Government of Iraq from 2006|government]] of [[Nouri al-Maliki]], a post she also held in the [[Iraqi Transitional Government]]. She was Minister of Women's Affairs in the [[Iraqi Interim Government]] and a Minister of Education in the [[Iraqi Kurdistan]] Region from 1992.{{cn|date=February 2021}}


She escaped an assassination attempt in August 2005 when gunmen attacked her convoy <ref> [http://newsfromrussia.com/world/2005/08/23/61578.html Iraqi Minister attacked in Baghdad is safe], News from Russia </ref>
She escaped an assassination attempt in August 2005 when gunmen attacked her convoy <ref>[http://newsfromrussia.com/world/2005/08/23/61578.html Iraqi Minister attacked in Baghdad is safe] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060325005342/http://newsfromrussia.com/world/2005/08/23/61578.html |date=2006-03-25 }}, News from Russia</ref>


Her family were active in the [[Kurd]]ish [[peshmerga]] who fought [[Saddam Hussein]] who had her uncle and brother-in-law executed. Her husband (Daro Sheikh Noori) was imprisoned for five years where he was tortured. <ref> [http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2005/edition_07-03-2005/featured_0 Parade] </ref> She and her husband went into exile in [[Sweden]] in 1984, returning to Iraq in 1992. Her husband was a PUK Politburo member, who died in 2004, the same year that she was offered a post in the national government.
Her family were active in the [[Kurd]]ish [[peshmerga]] who fought [[Saddam Hussein]] who had her uncle and brother-in-law executed. Her husband (Daro Sheikh Noori) was imprisoned for five years where he was tortured.<ref>[http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2005/edition_07-03-2005/featured_0 Parade]</ref> She and her husband went into exile in [[Sweden]] in 1984, returning to Iraq in 1992. Her husband was a PUK Politburo member, who died in 2004, the same year that she was offered a post in the national government.


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Latest revision as of 16:28, 26 January 2023

Othman in Ramadi, Iraq, in 2008

Narmin Othman (born c.1948, Arabic: نيرمين عثمان; Kurdish Nermîn Osman) is the Iraqi Minister for the Environment in the government of Nouri al-Maliki, a post she also held in the Iraqi Transitional Government. She was Minister of Women's Affairs in the Iraqi Interim Government and a Minister of Education in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region from 1992.[citation needed]

She escaped an assassination attempt in August 2005 when gunmen attacked her convoy [1]

Her family were active in the Kurdish peshmerga who fought Saddam Hussein who had her uncle and brother-in-law executed. Her husband (Daro Sheikh Noori) was imprisoned for five years where he was tortured.[2] She and her husband went into exile in Sweden in 1984, returning to Iraq in 1992. Her husband was a PUK Politburo member, who died in 2004, the same year that she was offered a post in the national government.

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