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Ebru Umar

Dutch journalist

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Born: May 20, 1970
Birthplace: The Hague
Citizenship: Kingdom of the Netherlands
Occupation: writer
, columnist
Education: Gymnasium Erasmianum
Languages spoken, written or signed: Dutch

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Ebru Umar 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. She writes for a number of Dutch magazines and has published four books, often on the topics of feminism and criticism of Islam.

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Sex or gender: female
Given name: Ebru
Awards: Pim Fortuyn Prize(2017)
Family name: Umar
Copyright status as a creator: works protected by copyrights applies to jurisdiction: countries with longer than 70 years pma
Social media followers: 66,581(February 9, 2023) x (twitter) numeric user id: 52528334
59,869(January 27, 2022) x (twitter) numeric user id: 52528334
46,905(January 5, 2021) x (twitter) numeric user id: 52528334
Native language: Dutch
Name in native language: Ebru Umar

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