Daoud Naji also spelled as Dawood Naji ( fa, داوود ناجی) is an ethnic Hazara politician, political activist and journalist from

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordere ...

. He was senior political adviser to the Afghan National Security Council. Before he joined the government, he was a senior leader of the Enlightenment Movement of Afghanistan and the

Tabassum movement The Tabassum movement ( prs, جنبش تبسم, ) was a grassroots protest movement in Afghanistan that held several protests in Kabul and other Afghan cities in mid-November 2015, following the execution by an armed opposition group of nine-yea ...

. Daoud Naji has previously been a

BBC Radio BBC Radio is an operational business division and service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a royal charter since 1927). The service provides national radio stations covering ...

journalist and worked for BBC world service for 14 years.

Early life and education

Daoud Naji was born on 17 June 1973 in

Malistan Malistan or Malestan ( prs, مالستان) is a town and the district center of Malistan District, Ghazni Province, Afghanistan. It is situated in its southwestern part at at 2,969 m altitude. Once the town was a bazaar. See also * Malistan ...

Ghazni province Ghazni (Dari: ) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in southeastern Afghanistan. The province contains 19 districts, encompassing over a thousand villages and roughly 1.3 million people, making it the 5th most populous province. Th ...

. He has a bachelor's degree in Persian language and literature from the Faculty of Language and Literature at

Balkh University Balkh University ( fa, دانشگاه بلخ; ps, د بلخ پوهنتون) is a public university located in Mazar-i-Sharif, capital of Balkh Province in northern Afghanistan. Established in 1986, the university has about 18,000 students and is ...

. When the

Taliban The Taliban (; ps, طالبان, ṭālibān, lit=students or 'seekers'), which also refers to itself by its state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a Deobandi Islamic fundamentalist, militant Islamist, jihadist, and Pasht ...

came to power, he left

Mazar-e-Sharif , official_name = , settlement_type = City , image_skyline = , pushpin_map = Afghanistan#Bactria#West Asia , pushpin_label = Mazar-i-Sharif , pushpin ...

and went to Jaghori, Ghazni province, where he worked as a teacher. In year 2000 he immigrated to

Quetta Quetta (; ur, ; ; ps, کوټه‎) is the tenth most populous city in Pakistan with a population of over 1.1 million. It is situated in south-west of the country close to the International border with Afghanistan. It is the capital of ...

Pakistan Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 243 million people, and has the world's second-lar ...

and established the ''Albironi elementary School'' for refugees, which later became a high school. In 2002, he began working with

BBC Persian BBC Persian ( fa, بی‌بی‌سی فارسی) is the Persian language broadcast station and subsidiary of BBC World Service which conveys the latest political, social, economical and sport news relevant to Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan, an ...

as a local reporter in

Helmand Helmand (Pashto/Dari: ; ), also known as Hillmand, in ancient times, as Hermand and Hethumand, is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, in the south of the country. It is the largest province by area, covering area. The province contains 13 ...

and

Kandahar Kandahar (; Kandahār, , Qandahār) is a city in Afghanistan, located in the south of the country on the Arghandab River, at an elevation of . It is Afghanistan's second largest city after Kabul, with a population of about 614,118. It is the c ...

. In 2006, he moved to London to continue his job as a senior producer in BBC Persian. In 2009, he became the new Editor-in-Chief of BBC Persian online, the most visited website in Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Iran, for Persian speakers around the world. During 2011 and 2012, he began training online for Afghan journalists in a joint project with the support of the BBC and media action. In 2014, he started writing for the dail
Etilaat-e-Roz
Currently, he is a member of the editor's board of daily Etilaat-e-Roz. Daoud Naji has participated in several international conferences as a reporter.

References

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