Farahnaz "Farah" Karimi (Persian: فرح کريمی; born 15 November 1960 in Hassanabad Yasukand, garuss) is an Iranian-Dutch politician.

From the age of fifteen, Karimi became interested in progressive interpretations of Islam and Ali Shariati.

[1] Since her youth, Karimi has been involved in the resistance against Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi and campaigned for democracy and human rights in Iran.

[1] In 1980, Karimi left the university to join the Mojahedin-e Khalgh, a left-Islamistic[1] resistance movement against the Islamic Republic government.

In her 2005 book The Secret of Fire Karimi describes her political development in her youth, her experiences with the Mojahedin-e Khalgh and her break with the organization.

Since 1994, she worked as a coordinator for Aisa, a project for the emancipation and support of black, migrant and refugee women.

In 1998 she was a national project leader for "Heel de Buurt" of the Dutch Institute for Care and Welfare.

[3] In 2003, she proposed, together with Niesco Dubbelboer of the PvdA and Boris van der Ham of the D66, to hold a referendum on the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe.

She also took the initiative to support free Iranian Media, Rooz and Radio Zamaneh, with 15 million euros.

As an administrator, she was involved with the advisory board of the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World, among other projects.

[3] The main themes of her work in the House of Representatives were human rights and international law in foreign relations of the Netherlands.

In early 2007, Karimi worked for the United Nations Development Programme, where she was a senior consultant for the UNDP in Afghanistan for project SEAL (Support to the Establishment of the Afghan Legislator).

Since 2004, she has been a member of the Board of Advice of the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World in Leiden.