Ali Maisam Nazary
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Ali Maisam Nazary | |
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National Resistance Front of Afghanistan Head of Foreign Relations | |
Assumed office August 2021 | |
Leader | Ahmad Massoud |
Preceded by | Office established |
Personal details | |
Born | 1990 (age 33–34) |
Political party | National Resistance Front of Afghanistan |
Other political affiliations | Massoud Foundation |
Alma mater | University of California, Los Angeles London School of Economics |
Website | |
Ali Maisam Nazary (Persian: علی میثم نظری, born 1990) is an Afghan politician; since August 2021, he has been Head of Foreign Relations for the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF).
Education[edit]
Ali Nazary is an alumnus of the University of California, Los Angeles and the London School of Economics. He graduated from UCLA in 2012 with a degree in International Relations and Comparative Politics, and with a master's from LSE, focused on nationalism, governance, nation- and state-building, and conflict studies.[citation needed]
Career[edit]
Ali Nazary began his career in communications at Khorasan TV, hosting a weekly show on politics and current affairs in Afghanistan. He then was Director of Media Affairs for Abdullah Abdullah's 2014 presidential campaign, and following the election, Nazary took a hiatus from politics to work as an Afghan and Central Asian government relations specialist at Bellwether Partners, overseeing international relations consulting and management projects.[1] In 2016, he also became president of the Massoud Foundation USA, the U.S. branch of the Massoud family's Afghan relief organization, a position he continues to hold.[citation needed]
National Resistance Front[edit]
As tensions between the Taliban and the government grew amidst the drawdown of NATO forces from Afghanistan, Nazary returned to politics as chief of Ahmad Massoud's diplomatic office.[2] With the fall of Kabul and Ashraf Ghani's flight from the country, Massoud allied with Vice President Amrullah Saleh (who had assumed the role of Acting President)[3] to form the National Resistance Front, based in Panjshir.
Subsequently, Nazary was appointed Head of Foreign Relations for the NRF.[4][5][6] He has been described as Ahmad Massoud's "point man".[7]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Bellwether Team". Bellwether Partners. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
- ^ Massoud, Ahmad. In the Name of My Father: Struggling for Freedom in Afghanistan. Republic Book Publishers.
- ^ "Afghan vice president says he is "caretaker" president". Reuters. 17 August 2021.
- ^ "Anti-Taliban resistance group says it has thousands of fighters". BBC. 23 August 2021.
- ^ "Resistance official: Afghans are answering the call for an uprising". CNN. 8 September 2021. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
- ^ "Afghan National Resistance Front: The battle continues". BBC Persian. 19 September 2021.
- ^ Anthony Grant (11 April 2022). "In Democracy's Cradle, Free Afghanistan's Ali Nazary Talks of War and Resistance". New York Sun. Retrieved 30 June 2024.