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'{{notability|Biographies|date=November 2016}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2014}} '''Mina Adampour''' (born 1987) is a [[Norwegians with Iranian background|Norwegian-Iranian]] commentator, columnist and medical doctor. She is a board member of TRH Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit's Foundation and is appointed by the Norwegian Directorate of Health as a committee member to the Karl Evang Prize. ==Early life and education== Mina Adampour was born in Karachi, Pakistan and has an Iranian background. She attended [[Foss Upper Secondary School]] in Oslo.<ref>{{cite news|last=Adampour|first=Mina|title=Vi må stå sammen – mot rasismen|url=http://intsos.no/?id=2575|accessdate=1 October 2012|newspaper=Internasjonale Sosialister|date=8 October 2005|language=Norwegian}}</ref> Adampour has lived in both [[Bodø]] and Oslo. She's currently a medical doctor graduate from the [[University of Oslo]]. ==Career== Adampour was involved in politics from an early age. In 2003, at age-sixteen, she organized a large anti-war demonstration outside the US Embassy. Even though she wasn't active in the revolutionary socialist party [[Red Electoral Alliance]], she was asked to run as their candidate in the [[Norwegian local elections, 2007|2007 local elections]] and accepted. After the election, she gained a seat in the borough of [[Grünerløkka]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Rød Valgallianses liste|url=http://www.valg2007.oslo.kommune.no/getfile.php/Valg%202007%20(V07)/Internett%20(Valg%202007)/Dokumenter/Valglister%20og%20kandidater/Rød%20Valgallianse__GRÜNERLØKKA_PT.pdf|work=Valglister|publisher=Grünerløkka bydelsutvalg|accessdate=1 October 2012|language=Norwegian}}</ref> However, Adampour declined to represent the new communist party [[Red (Norway)|Red]] at the [[Norwegian local elections, 2011|2011 local elections]]<ref>http://xn--rdt-0na.no/grunerlokka/bydelsvalget-2011/</ref> She has written extensively and have been published in [[Dagsavisen]], [[Klassekampen]], [[Ny Tid]] and [[Utrop]]. She is also a columnist in the largest newspaper in Norway, [[Aftenposten]]. Adampour is frequently seen in public debates,.<ref>http://www.nrk.no/nett-tv/indeks/312060/</ref><ref>http://www.nrk.no/nett-tv/indeks/309145/</ref><ref>http://nl.nrk.no/podkast/aps/226/nrk_her_og_naa_2012-1113-0740_6348843232.mp3</ref><ref>http://tv.nrk.no/serie/debatten1/nnfa51011013/10-01-2013</ref> Adampour received national attention when [[Queen Sonja of Norway]] and [[Crown Princess Mette-Marit]] visited her family home. ==Critics== Mina Adampour is a controversial debater in Norwegian society famous for spreading classical leftist and islamist anti-israelism and propalestinism. In a Norwegian radio debate on Saturday 17 June <ref>https://radio.nrk.no/serie/ukeslutt/NMAG04002417/17-06-2017#t=29m50s/</ref> she condemned the Israeli actress Gal Gador for her comment where she had showned solidarity to her "fellow Israeli citizens" and to "all the boys and girls who are risking their lives protecting" her country "against the horrific acts conducted by Hamas, who are hiding like cowards behind women and children."<ref>http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2017/06/01/why_so_many_people_care_that_wonder_woman_is_israeli.html/</ref><ref>http://www.miff.no/boikott-aksjoner-mot-israel/2017/06/19NRKUkesluttmeddebatthvorbeggepartervilboikotteIsrael.htm/</ref> Mina Adampour claimed in the said radio debate that it is Israel that is hiding cowardly behind civilians and that the Norwegians should boycott the new movie Wonder Woman on the basis that the main actress is an Israeli citizen. In the radio debate Mina Adampour did not express any repulsion over the war techniques used by the terror organisation Hamas, but rather accused Gal Gadot for using "an inhumane wording vis-à-vis the Palestinian victims during the Gaza invasion". Mina Adampour had no condemnations for Hamas. ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== * [http://ungdommotrasisme.no/ Youth Against Racism (In Norwegian)] * [https://twitter.com/MinaAdampour Official Twitter account] {{DEFAULTSORT:Adampour, Mina}} [[Category:1987 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Writers from Oslo]] [[Category:Politicians from Oslo]] [[Category:Red Party (Norway) politicians]] [[Category:Norwegian journalists]] [[Category:Norwegian Trotskyists]] [[Category:Norwegian people of Iranian descent]] [[Category:Norwegian women writers]]'