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Nuriyah Khadhim
arabwoman5bl.jpg
nationality
Ariddian
job
acting head of state
title
Secretary
age
36

Nuriyah bint Rashad Khadhim is an Ariddian diplomat and politician. She is currently the acting head of state, due to Prime Secretary Aj Ud being hospitalised.

Khadhim was born in the Ariddian city of Espérence, in a predominantly Wymgani (Indigenous Ariddian) area. She herself is of mixed Arab, Wymgani and Caucasian descent, and is legally an Indigenous citizen. Due to Ariddian legislation, the area she grew up in was subject to Wymgani customary laws. Khadhim entered politics at the age of 20, joining the Democratic Communist Party even as she continued studies in politics and environmental management at Espérence University.

At the age of 27, Khadhim was elected to the Wehela Iolih (Indigenous Parliament). Five years later, she was appointed as a junior diplomat to the Ariddian embassy in Errinundera, then, two years after that, to Ariddia's embassy in Knootoss. She remained there six months before being asked to join the Council of Secretaries as Assistant Secretary for the Environment. Her skill soon saw her promoted to the rather vague position of Secretary without Portfolio; she attended Council meetings, and, due to her talent and experience as a diplomat, greeted foreign dignitaries alongside the Prime Secretary.

A few months later, the 78-year-old Aj Ud suffered a mild heart attack, and the Council, with the approval of the People's Prime Parliament, chose Khadhim as temporary head of state.

It is expected that, if Ud resigns at the end of his term, Khadhim will be chosen to stand in his place in the election for Prime Secretary. At the age of 36, she no doubt still has a long career ahead of her.

Khadhim is not married, but lives with her consort, Aurélien Dumont, and their daughter Fahimah. She speaks Wymgani, French, English, Arabic and Dutch. Politically, she is seen as a "safe" choice by the Party, as she appears to strongly believe in its ideals. She has spoken up repeatedly about the "inalianable right of all peoples to decent living conditions" and against "the intolerable perversity which has people believe that the right to senseless profit should somehow be more important than the right to life itself". She is a strong advocate of social rights, a firm believer in the importance of education, and a committed environmentalist - beliefs and priorities which she shares with the Prime Secretary himself.