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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 [[Patriotic Union of Kurdistan|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 [[Patriotic Union of Kurdistan|PUK]] Politburo member, who died in 2004, the same year that she was offered a post in the national government.

She is the mother of [[Hawre Daro Noori]].

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Latest revision as of 20:05, 28 October 2025

Iraqi minister for Environmental in the Nouri al-Maliki Government

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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