Abid Raja

Abid Raja, born Abid Qayyum Raja on 5 November 1975 in Oslo, is a Norwegian lawyer, politician, author and influencer. He studied at the University of Oslo from 1996 to 2001 and at the University of Oxford from 2003 to 2004, and he speaks Norwegian, Urdu, Punjabi and English. He received the Fritt Ord Award in 2010, the Norwegian Booksellers' Prize in 2021 and Åpenhetsprisen in 2022. His X account, abidraja, had 80,089 followers in January 2023.