Khadija Arib

Khadija Arib ( born October 10, 1960 in Hedami, Morocco ) is a Dutch politician of Moroccan descent. Since 1 March 2007 she is a member of the Second Chamber of the Dutch Parliament, where she represents the Partij van de Arbeid. Previously, she was already 1998 to 2006 member of the Chamber.

Arib grew up in Morocco, near Casablanca. At fifteen she came to the Netherlands. She studied at the School of Social Work and Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. Later, she became an assistant at Wohlfahtsorganisationen in Breda and Utrecht and worked at the Institute of Social and Economic Sciences at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam and as deputy director and senior policy adviser to the social and health care in Amsterdam. She is co-founder of the Moroccan women's association in the Netherlands.

In 1989 Arib has spent several weeks in a prison in Morocco. Her husband, Nordine Dahhan, was speaker of the Committee of Moroccan Workers in the Netherlands ( KMAN ) and was considered by the Moroccan government as " subversive ".

In the elections of 1998, she was first elected to the Dutch Parliament.

In 2009 she published a biography entitled " Couscous op Sunday: een familiegeschiedenis " ( couscous on Sunday: A family history ), in which she describes her past from the arrival in the Netherlands to their activities in 2009.