Mariam may refer to:

People:

• the Arabic name for Mary, the mother of Jesus (see Islamic views of Mary)
• Mariam of Vaspurakan, first wife of King George I of Georgia and regent for her son, Bagrat IV, in the 11th century
• Mariam-uz-Zamani (1542–1622), wife of Mughal Emperor Akbar
• Mariam Amash (born 1888), a claimant to the title of the oldest living person
• Mariam Aslamazian (1907-2006), Armenian painter
• Mariam Baouardy (1846-1878), Melkite Greek Catholic Carmelite nun beatified by Pope John Paul II
• Mariam Aladji Boni Diallo (born 1952?), politician and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Benin
• Mariam Doumbia, half of Amadou & Mariam, a musical duo from Mali
• Mariam Fakhr Eddine (born 1933), Egyptian actress
• Mariam Hakobyan (born 1949), Armenian sculptor
• Mariam Hasan, Pakistani cricketer
• Mariam Nazarian (born 1983), concert pianist and producer
• Mariam Omar, Zanzibari politician and member of the Sauti ya Umma party
• Mariam Tsitsishvili (1768–1850), wife of George XII of Georgia
• Mariam Usman, Nigerian weightlifter
• Mariam Vardanian (1864-1941), Armenian political activist and revolutionary in the Russian Empire
• Mariam Wafa, Afghan singer
• Mengistu Haile Mariam (born 1937), head of state of Ethiopia from 1977 to 1991

Other uses:

• Mariam, protagonist of the Jacobean era play The Tragedy of Mariam
• MV Mariam, a Bolivian-flagged passenger ferry

See also[link]

• Maryam
• Miriam (disambiguation)

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Mariam Osman Sherifay is a Swedish politician, social activist, pre-school teacher and former member of parliament.^[1]

Career[link]

Sherifay was a member of the Swedish parliament between 2002–2003, as a replacement for the Council of State, Björn von Sydow. She was a member of and Housing kommitee (Bostadsutskottet) and eupties for Committee on Foreign Affairs and the European Union Committee among several other appointments.^[2]

In 2009 she was awarded the Swedish Martin Luther King prize, an award founded by Swedish Fellowship of Reconciliation and the Swedish Baptist church for her fight against racism and her written call I refuse to be a victim.^[3]

Personal life[link]

Sherifay was born in Cairo, Egypt as the fourth of twelve siblings. Her father came from Eritrea and her mother was Egyptian. Her family was Muslim and attended catholic schools. She came to Sweden in 1975.^[4]

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