Arjan El Fassed
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Arjan El Fassed | |
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Member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands | |
| In office 17 June 2010 – 19 September 2012 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Arjan El Fassed 5 August 1973 GreenLeft (GroenLinks - GL) |
| Spouse | Married |
| Residence(s) | Utrecht, Netherlands |
| Alma mater | Leiden University (M.A., Political science) |
| Occupation | Politician, development aid worker, human rights activist |
| Website | (in Dutch) Arjan El Fassed |
Arjan El Fassed (born 5 August 1973) is a former
GreenLeft (GroenLinks) he was an MP from 17 June 2010 to 19 September 2012. He focused on matters of development aid, foreign policy, digital rights, open data and transparency
.
Biography
El Fassed studied
Oxfam International
.
He is co-founder of Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He quit his involvement with the site in 2009.
In 2007 El Fassed was involved in a spoof involving a letter allegedly written by
South African apartheid to Israel's treatment of Palestinians. The memo was widely cited even by former American President Jimmy Carter. In 2007, political writer Joel Pollack reported that the memo was drafted by El Fassed[2] who eventually wrote his own blog post professing that the memo was in fact his own creation.[3]
From June 2010 until September 2012, he was a member of the
Dutch House of Representatives
. Since 2013, he is director of the Open State Foundation, a non-profit organization based in the Netherlands that promotes democratic transparency, accountability and participation with the development of online platforms and promotes unlocking and re-use of open (government) data.
Bibliography
- 2008: Niet iedereen kan stenen gooien: Een Nederlandse Palestijn op zoek naar zijn wortels en identiteit, ISBN 978-90-8645-027-5
Awards
- 2011: Fair Politician of the Year 2010-2011, Evert Vermeer Foundation
References
- ^ arjan (2003-10-14). "Mandela's First Memo to Thomas Friedman". The Electronic Intifada. Retrieved 2019-06-17.
- ^ "The big lie: that Mandela viewed Israel as an apartheid state". www.thejc.com. Retrieved 2019-06-17.
- ^ "Mandela memo | @arjanelfassed". arjanelfassed.tumblr.com. Archived from the original on 2013-12-08.
External links
- (in Dutch) Parlement.com biography
- (in Dutch) Open State Foundation
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