Ebru Umar Explained

Birth Date:20 May 1970
Birth Place:The Hague, Netherlands
Nationality:Dutch and Turkish

Ebru Umar (in Dutch; Flemish pronounced as /ˌe:bru ˈumɑr/; pronounced as /tr/; born 20 May 1970) is a Dutch columnist of Turkish descent. Under the influence of Theo van Gogh, she gave up a career in management and became a columnist, first for van Gogh's website and, after he was assassinated, as his successor as a regular columnist of Metro.[1] She writes for a number of Dutch magazines and has published four books, often on the topics of feminism and criticism of Islam.

Biography

Umar is the child of Turkish parents who came to the Netherlands in 1970. Her father is a retired anatomic pathologist, her mother an ophthalmologist.[2] She grew up in Rotterdam and attended the Gymnasium Erasmianum.[3]

After studying management and working for a while as a manager, she began writing, under the influence of Theo van Gogh,[2] and wrote columns for his website (van Gogh was her "friend and mentor"),[4] [5] and soon began writing for a number of other Dutch newspapers. In 2005 she took over van Gogh's column in Metro.[6] Umar is also the author of four books, and writes a weekly column for the Dutch women's weekly magazine Libelle[3] (in addition to doing interviews[7] and panel discussions[8] for the magazine) and for the Dutch feminist magazine Opzij.[9] Umar, an atheist, has a reputation for outspokenness, a characteristic her parents say she has had from an early age.[2]

In 2006 she was beaten outside her apartment in Amsterdam by two attackers.[10]

Arrest in Turkey

On April 23, 2016, Umar was arrested in her holiday apartment in the Turkish town of Kuşadası, which she has said was for posting tweets that were critical of Turkish president Erdoğan.[11] [12] [13] She was then released but not allowed to leave Turkey.[14] On April 24, 2016, her home in Amsterdam was burglarized and vandalized.

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Notes and References

  1. News: Ebru Umar: VVD walgelijke huichelachtige partij, Verdonk wist in 2004 van echte naam Hirsi Ali. 30 August 2012. Nederlands Juridisch Dagblad. 18 May 2006. nl.
  2. News: Maas. Cornald. 'Het heeft geen zin tegen Ebru te zeggen dat ze haar mond moet houden'. 31 August 2012. de Volkskrant. 9 February 2008. nl.
  3. News: Brandt Corstius. Aaf. Een soort Fame-meets-Krachtwijk. 31 August 2012. NRC Handelsblad. 8 October 2009. nl. 7 September 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130907065106/http://www.nrcnext.nl/columnisten/2009/10/08/een-soort-fame-meets-krachtwijk/. dead.
  4. Book: Scroggins, Deborah . Deborah Scroggins . Wanted women: faith, lies, and the war on terror : the lives of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Aafia Siddiqui. 2012. Harper. New York. 9780062097958. 285.
  5. News: Jong. Perro de. Dutch fear loss of tolerance. 31 August 2012. BBC News. 3 November 2004.
  6. News: Ebru Umar opvolger Theo van Gogh. 13 October 2005. Algemeen Dagblad. nl.
  7. News: Tassier. Manu. 'EUROPA mag geen moeial zijn'. 31 August 2012. De Standaard. 19 May 2009. nl.
  8. News: Boevink. Wim. Even op de gang staan. 31 August 2012. Trouw. 2 March 2002. nl.
  9. News: 'Ik blijf!': Turkse schrijfsters roeren zich.. 31 August 2012. Zuid-Kennemerland Dichtbij. 23 March 2012. nl.
  10. News: Reijn. Gerard. 'Twee kerels die een vrouw slaan, wat een moed'. 31 August 2012. de Volkskrant. 25 April 2006. nl.
  11. Web site: Columniste Ebru Umar opgepakt in Turkije. 23 April 2016 . nos.nl. nl.
  12. News: Dutch journalist arrested in Turkey for criticising Erdoğan . . . 24 April 2016 . 24 April 2016.
  13. News: Dutch journalist Ebru Umar arrested in Turkey . . 24 April 2016 . 24 April 2016.
  14. News: Dutch journalist Ebru Umar 'free but forbidden to leave' Turkey after criticising Erdogan. 25 April 2016. AFP/Reuters. ABC. 25 April 2016.
  15. Book: Moors, Annelies. Things: religions and the question of materiality. 2012. Fordham UP. New York. 9780823239450. 291. The Affective Power of the Face Veil: Between Disgust and Fascination. https://books.google.com/books?id=Y4T0e26xYzQC&pg=PA291. nl.
  16. News: Brink. Jan Auke. Rev. of Ebru Umar, Geen talent voor de liefde. 31 August 2012. 8Weekly. 28 February 2006. nl.

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