Hadia Tajik
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Hadia Tajik MP |
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| 12th Minister of Culture | |
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In office 21 September 2012 – 16 October 2013 |
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| Prime Minister | Jens Stoltenberg |
| Preceded by | Anniken Huitfeldt |
| Succeeded by | Thorhild Widvey |
| Member of the Norwegian Parliament | |
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Assumed office 14 September 2009 |
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| Constituency | Oslo |
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18 July 1983 Stand, Rogaland, Norway |
| Nationality | Norwegian |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse(s) | Stefan Heggelund (m. 2014; div. 2016) |
| Alma mater |
University of Oslo Stavanger University College Kingston University |
| Religion | Islam |
Hadia Tajik (born 18 July 1983) is a Norwegian jurist, journalist and politician. On 21 September 2012, she was appointed Minister of Culture and, at 29 years of age, became the youngest minister ever to serve in the Norwegian government, as well as the first Muslim and Asian. She is a Member of Parliament for the Labour Party representing Oslo.
Unlike some of her older predecessors and colleagues, Tajik is an enthusiastic user of social media, and an avid supporter of E-books, and as a result she is often called Norway's "first digital Minister of Culture".
Hadia Tajik was born on 18 July 1983 in the village of Bjørheimsbygd in Strand, Rogaland, to M. Sarwar Tajik (born 1947) and mother Safia Qazalbash (born 1948), emigrants from Pakistan in the early 1970s. After completing Bjørheimsbygd Primary School as one of only seven pupils, she attended Tau Lower Secondary School between 1996 and 1998 and later Strand Upper Secondary School from 1998 to 2001.
She has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Stavanger University College, after which she studied human rights at Kingston University in England from 2004 to 2005, earning a Masters degree. She subsequently enrolled in and studied law at the University of Oslo receiving her Master of Law degree in 2012.
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