Khalid Salimi

In 1974 he was elected Information Secretary of the Jadid Adbi Tehrik, Movement for Contemporary Literature in Lahore.

Salimi has worked for immigrants and other minorities’ rights and been engaged in debates on racism and discrimination since the late 1970s.

In 1978 he helped to start Immigrant Collective in Oslo which, among other activities, was behind the creation and publication of the anti-racist magazine Immigranten (today Samora Forum).

Through a series of media appearances and public debates, Salimi became the best-known Norwegian-Pakistani activist in Norway during the 1980s and 1990s.

Salimi has been the Chief Editor of journal Samora Forum Magazine since 1979 and was columnist for the newspaper Dagbladet in 2001–2002.