Hispanopedia WikiNarmin 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.
She escaped an assassination attempt in August 2005 when gunmen attacked her convoy.[1]
Her family were active in the Kurdishpeshmerga 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.
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