Rima Hassan
Rima Hassan | |
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Official portrait, 2024 | |
| Member of the European Parliament for France | |
| Assumed office 16 July 2024 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Rima Hassan Mobarak 28 April 1992 Neirab camp, Aleppo, Syria |
| Citizenship | France (since 2010) Stateless (until 2010) |
| Party | LFI (2023–present) |
| Alma mater | Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University Université de Montpellier University of Évry Val d'Essonne |
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Rima Hassan Mobarak (Arabic: ريما حسن مبارك, romanized: Rīmā Ḥasan Mubārak; born 28 April 1992) is a French jurist and politician of Palestinian origin, born in the Neirab refugee camp, near Aleppo, Syria. Stateless, she arrived in France around the age of nine and settled with her family in Niort. After obtaining French nationality upon reaching adulthood, she earned a master's degree in international law from Panthéon-Sorbonne University.
In 2019, Hassan founded the Refugee Camps Observatory, an NGO dedicated to the study and protection of refugee camps worldwide. In 2023, she founded the Action Palestine France collective. That same year, she joined La France Insoumise to contest the 2024 European Parliament election on Manon Aubry's list. She was elected to the European Parliament on 9 June 2024.