Naema Tahir

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.

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

Personal life Tahir is married to Andreas Kinneging, a legal scholar and professor of philosophy of law at Leiden University.