Aimal Faizi (Persian: fa, ایمل فیضی) is an Afghan journalist and columnist, who served as the

spokesperson A spokesperson, spokesman, or spokeswoman, is someone engaged or elected to speak on behalf of others. Duties and function In the present media-sensitive world, many organizations are increasingly likely to employ professionals who have receiv ...

of Afghanistan's President

Hamid Karzai Hamid Karzai (; Pashto/ fa, حامد کرزی, , ; born 24 December 1957) is an Afghan statesman who served as the fourth president of Afghanistan from July 2002 to September 2014, including as the first elected president of the Islamic Repub ...

from 2011 to 2014. He was also the

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to the government.

Biography

Faizi was born in

Kandahar Province Kandahār ( ps, ; Kandahār, prs, ; ''Qandahār'') is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the southern part of the country, sharing a border with Pakistan, to the south. It is surrounded by Helmand in the west, Uruzgan ...

. He studied

French French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents ** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ...

at the Afghan-Franco school in

Kabul Kabul (; ps, , ; , ) is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan. Located in the eastern half of the country, it is also a municipality, forming part of the Kabul Province; it is administratively divided into 22 municipal districts. Acco ...

, but fled the civil war in 1994. He went on to study journalism at the Bordeaux Montaigne University in France. Back in Afghanistan he worked at the state-run news agency

Bakhtar Bactria (; Bactrian language, Bactrian: , ), or Bactriana, was an ancient region in Central Asia in Amu Darya, Amu Darya's middle stream, stretching north of the Hindu Kush, west of the Pamirs and south of the Gissar Range, Gissar range, covering ...

and

Radio Television Afghanistan National Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA; ps, ''Da Afġanistan Mīlī Radīo Telvizoon'', fa, ''Rādīo Telvizoon-e Mīlī-e Afġānestān'', branded as ملی (meaning ''national'')) is the public-broadcasting organization of Afghanistan ...

(RTA), before being appointed as the president's spokesman after the resignation of

Wahid Omar Waheed Omar (Dari:وحید عمر) (born March 1978) is a politics of Afghanistan, politician in Afghanistan currently serving as President Ghani's Senior Advisor and Director General of Office of Public and Strategic Affairs. From 2016 to 2019 h ...

. He held his post until the end of Karzai's government in September 2014, succeeded by

Sayed Zafar Hashemi Zafar Hashemi ( fa, ظفر هاشمی; born February 17, 1985) is Afghan-American who serves as special advisor on Afghanistan for the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR). Previously, he worked as the political coun ...

. Faizi continues to be Karzai's aide ever since. In 2015 he started writing articles for

Al Jazeera Al Jazeera ( ar, الجزيرة, translit-std=DIN, translit=al-jazīrah, , "The Island") is a state-owned Arabic-language international radio and TV broadcaster of Qatar. It is based in Doha and operated by the media conglomerate Al Jazeera ...

English.

References

External links

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