Education
He has studied Media and Culture at the University of Amsterdam, specializing in cinema.
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Tofik Dibi
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He focused on matters of criminal law, safety, youth, family, and integration. Dibi is of Moroccan descent. He combined his study with activities in the Marxist Turkish Workers" Union in the Netherlands (Turkish: Hollanda Türkiyeli Isçiler Birligi (HTIB), Dutch: Turkse Arbeidersvereniging in Nederland), and in his own neighborhood Bos en Lommer in Amsterdam.
Together with the Trotskyist International Socialists, he initiated the national demonstration Stop Bush! In September 2006 Dibi unexpectedly came in seventh on the list of GreenLeft for the 2006 general elections and was chosen in the House of Representatives in November 2006.
The GreenLeft screening commission called him "a political talent", to Dibi"s own amazement, for he had not considered his candidacy all that seriously. Because of his background he concentrated on improving opportunities for young allochtoon (migrant) people in the larger cities.
Their posters called Wilders "an extremist" and "harmful to society". In May 2012 he made public his internal candidacy for heading the GroenLinks list for the September 2012 elections.
He lost the internal elections to Jolande Sap, netting 12% of the vote versus Saps 84%.
Dibi wasn"t re-elected to parliament. After his departure from parliament, he returned to university where he studied until 2014. He released an autobiographical novel, Djinn, in October 2015.
Membership
He was a Member of Parliament from November 30, 2006 till September 19, 2012. At the time he was the youngest member of parliament. On January 13, 2007 Dibi was arrested and later released while pamphleteering against Dutch politician Geert Wilders with members of the International Socialists.
