Dilshad Aliyarli () is an Azerbaijani journalist and writer.

Biography

She was born on 1 February 1962 to Azerbaijani academicians Suleyman Aliyarli and Mira Aliyarli in

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. She graduated from

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with

B.A. degree Bachelor of arts (BA or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate education, undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally complet ...

in Oriental Studies; further she studied Arabic at Bourguiba Institute of Modern Languages in

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. She worked as a junior researcher for a while at Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan.

Journalism

Aliyarli worked as a BBC Azerbaijani reporter in

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from 1996 to 1998. In 1998 she moved to the

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and was hired as an international broadcaster by VOA Azerbaijani Service. She was the first anchor woman of “Newsflash” - the first daily TV show transmitted from

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. She has covered Azerbaijan and

for more than 20 years as an anchor, reporter, multimedia editor and producer. She played a pivotal role in the launch of Azerbaijani television programming at

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in 2004 and produced more than 400 editions of the service’s flagship weekly show in 2006 - ''Amerika İcmalı (American Review) -'' a weekly TV show with intend to give the Azerbaijani audience a greater perspective on political and social life in the US and US-Azerbaijan relations. She maintains a blog on Azerbaijani diaspora in US.

Women's rights

She is a writer with a focus on

women's rights Women's rights are the rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide. They formed the basis for the women's rights movement in the 19th century and the feminist movements during the 20th and 21st centuries. In some countries, ...

. She writes mostly on gender equality, family matters and fashion on her blog - "Women's World" ( Azerbaijani: ''Qadın dünyası'') besides "Visions of Azerbaijan", "OK! Azerbaijan" and "Caspian Crossroads".

Bibliography

* 1999 - ''Claiming Our Rights: A Manual for Women's Human Rights Education in Muslim Societies'' (authored by

Mahnaz Afkhami Mahnaz Afkhami (Persian: مهناز افخمی; born January 14, 1941) is an Iranian women's rights activist who served in the Cabinet of Iran from 1976 to 1978. She is founder and president of Women's Learning Partnership (WLP), executive direc ...

and Haleh Vaziri; Azerbaijani translation edited by Dilshad Aliyarli) * 2016 - ''Rainbow'' (), Qanun,

References

External links

Dilshad Aliyarli on Voice of America
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