El-Farouk Aziz Khaki

El-Farouk Aziz Khaki

Town of birth

• Dar es Salaam

Country of birth

• Tanzania

Date of Birth

• 1963/10/26

Name of institution of highest education achieved

• LLb; UBC

Place of longest stay

• Toronto

Profession or occupation carriedout for the longest period in life

• Lawyer Activist

Where-City or Country

• Toronto

Family tree

Parents

Aziz Khaki 1929–2012

Gulshan Haji

Born in 1963 Dar es Salaam

Gulshan Haji(Born in).

Aziz Khaki(Born in 1929 Zanzibar).

He was born in Tanzania, which his family fled in 1971 escaping political persecution. His parents arrived in Canada in 1974 and settled in Vancouver where Khaki grew up. He earned a law degree from the University of British Columbia before moving to Ottawa in 1988[1] and has lived and worked in Toronto since 1989.[2] He worked as a political staffer at Queen's Park until 1993 when he left to establish his legal practice.Khaki is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada and has been in private practice since 1993.[3] On June 26, 2014, he married his longtime partner Troy Jackson.

El-Farouk Khaki (born October 26, 1963) is a Canadian refugee and immigration lawyer, and human rights activist on issues including gender equality, sexual orientation, and progressive Islam. He was the New Democratic Party's candidate for the House of Commons in the riding of Toronto Centre in a March 17, 2008 by-election. Khaki came in second with 13.8% of the vote.