Ali Maisam Nazary
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Ali Maisam Nazary | |
|---|---|
| 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
Ali Nazary is an alumnus of the University of California, Los Angeles and the London School of Economics.[1][2] He graduated from UCLA in 2012, with a degree in political science and Middle Eastern studies, and from LSE in 2013 with a master's in international relations.[3][4]
Career
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.[5] 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.[2]
National Resistance Front
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.[6] 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)[7] to form the National Resistance Front, based in Panjshir.
Subsequently, Nazary was appointed Head of Foreign Relations for the NRF.[8][9][10] He has been described as Ahmad Massoud's "point man".[11]
See also
References
- ^ Megan McCallister (11 October 2021). "Alumnus Ali Maisam Nazary educates about Taliban takeover, crisis from new role". The Daily Bruin.
- ^ a b "Massoud Foundation Board of Directors". Massoud Foundation USA. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
- ^ Thomas Harding (3 December 2022). "Afghan resistance sees Taliban weakness as it seeks to exhaust the enemy". The National.
- ^ "Herat Security Dialogue-XI" (PDF). Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies. 28 November 2023.
- ^ "Bellwether Team". Bellwether Partners. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
- ^ Massoud, Ahmad (2024). In the Name of My Father: Struggling for Freedom in Afghanistan. Republic Book Publishers. ISBN 9781645720966.
- ^ "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.