Journalist and politician Bayan Muhammad Mahmoud Abdulrahman, known as Bayan Sami Abdulrahman, was elected in 2010 at the Thirteenth Congress as a member of the Leadership Council of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

Biography

Bayan Sami Abdulrahman was born in Baghdad in 1965. She received a bachelor's degree in history from the University of London and a diploma in journalism. She began working in journalism in 1988, worked as a journalist for the Observer and the Financial Times, and was deputy head of the Financial Times investigations section. In 2005 she became the representative of the Regional Government in the United Kingdom, and in 2014 the Regional Government's representative in the United States of America. She speaks Kurdish, Arabic, English, Japanese, and Persian.

Record of Struggle

In 1974, she and her family went to Iran as refugees, and in 1976 she went to the United Kingdom. In 2010, at the Thirteenth Congress, she was elected as a member of the Leadership Council of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

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