Naema Tahir

Naema Tahir
Born (1970-08-23) August 23, 1970
Slough, England
Alma materLeiden University
Occupations
  • Lawyer
  • writer
SpouseAndreas Kinneging
Writing career
Period1996–present
Genres
  • Non-fiction
  • fiction
Literary movement
Islamic feminism

Naema Tahir (born 23 August 1970) is a Dutch human rights lawyer and author.

Biography

Naema Tahir was born in Slough on August 23, 1970 into a Pakistani emigrant family. In 1980, the Tahir family moved from England to the Netherlands and settled in Etten-Leur. Tahir subsequently lived in Slough,Faisalabad in Pakistan (where her parents originally came from), Leiden, Nigeria, and Strasbourg. She studied Dutch law at Leiden University until 1996 and worked as a lawyer for Dutch and international institutions. She lived in Strasbourg, where she worked as a human rights lawyer for the Council of Europe. She took leave so that she could spend more time in the Netherlands and work on her Dutch-language books.[1][2]

She was one of the six women interviewed in The Third Feminist Wave (2006) by the Flemish political philosopher Dirk Verhofstadt, alongside Yasmine Allas, Naima El Bezaz, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Irshad Manji, and Nahed Selim.[1] She was also one of the guests on the 2008 season of Zomergasten.[3]

In 2009, Gijsbert Pols concluded that she presented herself as an "enlightened" or "critical" Muslim woman.[1]

From 2011 to 2012, she was a columnist for the television programmes Buitenhof and Altijd Wat. She later wrote columns for the newspaper Trouw. In November 2019, she received her doctorate on the subject of arranged marriage.[2][4]

Personal life

Tahir is married to Andreas Kinneging, a legal scholar and professor of philosophy of law at Leiden University.[5]

Bibliography

YearTitlePublisherISBNNotes
2004Een moslima ontsluiertHoutekietISBN 9789089240811Memoir and opinion pieces
2004Moslim in het paradijs: Op zoek naar de mens in de moslimHoutekietISBN 9789052407838
2006Kostbaar bezitPrometheusISBN 9789044607109Three stories
2008Groenkapje en de bekeerde wolf en andere moslimsprookjesMeulenhoffISBN 9789029083294Seven Muslim fairy tales for adults
2009Eenzaam hedenSanoma; MeulenhoffISBN 9789079088263Novel
2010De mensen? Ze hebben geen wortels en daar hebben ze last van. De twijfels en de trots van de ontworteldenInternational Organization for MigrationNon-fiction
2011Bruid van de doodDe GeusISBN 9789044515503Novel
2015Gesluierde vrijheid: De moslima in de moderne wereldPrometheusISBN 9789044623826A Muslim woman's view on the freedom and emancipation of modern Muslim women: emancipation with the Quran in hand
2016Brieven in UrduPrometheusISBN 9789044630008Stories
2017Trein naar PakistanHollands DiepISBN 9789048836130Introduction to the Dutch translation (by Ankie Blommesteijn) of Khushwant Singh's Train to Pakistan
2019Feminisme en groepsculturenAtlas ContactISBN 9789045037837Essay in the anthology Wolf: Dertien essays over de vrouw, edited by Maartje Laterveer
2022Breaking Eurocentric Frames on Arranged Marriage: Uncovering the Dynamics of a Marital InstitutionElevenISBN 9789462362871Academic work (in English)

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Gijsbert Pols (October 2009). "Naema Tahir". Kritisch lexicon van de moderne Nederlandstalige literatuur (in Dutch). Digital Library for Dutch Literature. Retrieved 22 September 2025.
  2. 1 2 "'Je moet erkennen dat niet iedereen in dezelfde snelheid emancipeert of wil emanciperen'". Movisie. 1 December 2019. Retrieved 17 April 2026.
  3. ↑ "Naema Tahir – writer and lawyer – Sunday 10 August 2008, 20:30, Ned 2". Zomergasten. VPRO. Archived from the original on 9 January 2011.
  4. ↑ "Naema Tahir". Utrecht University.
  5. ↑ "Buitenhof-columniste pleit voor 'verbod op onfatsoenlijke pers'". Joop. BNNVARA. 26 February 2012. Retrieved 17 April 2026.

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