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Afghanistani politician

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Sima Samar was born on February 3, 1957. The subject is associated with the country of Spain and is categorized as a group.

Samar has authored one work titled *Outspoken*. This individual has been referenced by 100 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 10 facts across 5 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
1

Top works

  • Outspoken

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Group
Origin
Spain
Active from
2003

Discography

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Key facts

President
Hamid Karzai
Preceded by
None
Succeeded by
Habiba Sarabi
Born
( 1957-02-03 ) 3 February 1957 (age 69) , Jaghori , Ghazni , Kingdom of Afghanistan
Awards
Ramon Magsaysay Award Right Livelihood Award

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Gender
female
Citizenship
Afghanistan
Place of birth
Ghazni
Position held
vice president
Educated at
Kabul University
Religion
Islam
Image
Sima Samar - 2016 (cropped).jpg
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Commons category
Sima Samar
date of birth
1957-02-03
on focus list of Wikimedia project
WikiProject Human rights
birth name
سیما سمر
Sources (4)

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~6 min read

Encyclopedic overview

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Ambassador Ryan Crocker with Sima Samar inside the American Embassy in Kabul. Hillary Clinton with Sima Samar and other female politicians of Afghanistan in Kabul, October 2011

Sima Samar (Dari: سیما سمر; born 3 February 1957) is a human rights advocate, activist and medical doctor within national and international forums, who served as Vice President of Afghanistan in the interim government of Hamid Karzai Minister for Women's Affairs from December 2001 to 2003.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sima Samar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.