Narmin Othman
Iraqi minister for Environmental in the Nouri al-Maliki Government
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Narmin Othman[a] (born c. 1948) is an Iraqi Kurdish politician. She served as Minister of Environment in the government of Nouri al-Maliki, a post she also held in the Iraqi Transitional Government. She also served as Minister of Women's Affairs in the Iraqi Interim Government and a Minister of Education in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region from 1992.[citation needed]
Narmin Othman | |
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نيرمين عثمان | |
Othman in Ramadi, Iraq, in 2008 | |
| Minister of Environment | |
| In office May 2005 – 21 December 2010 | |
| Preceded by | Abderrahman Sadik Karim |
| Succeeded by | Sargon Lazar Slewa |
| Minister of Women's Affairs | |
| In office 2004 – May 2005 | |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Azhar Abdel Karim al-Shaikhli |
| Personal details | |
| Spouse | Daro Sheikh Noori (died 2004) |
She escaped an assassination attempt in August 2005 when gunmen attacked her convoy.[1]
Her family were active in the Kurdish peshmerga fighting Saddam Hussein, the latter of whom 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.
