About Abbas Djavadi

Abbas Djavadi is Associate Director of Broadcasting at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, RFE/RL, overseeing Tajik, Uzbek, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and Turkmen language services. He joined RFE/RL in 1985 as an editor of the Azeri Service and later served as a supervising analyst of the Central Asian programs and Director of RFE/RL’s Tajik Service. He set up RFE/RL’s first broadcasts to Iran (Radio Azadi) in 1998 and Radio Free Afghanistan in 2002. After serving for more than three years as Director of RFE/RL’s Azeri Service, Abbas Djavadi became Associate Director of Broadcasting in charge of programs to Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and Central Asia.

Before joining RFE/RL, he worked as a scientific assistant at the University of Cologne and taught in German public schools. Abbas Djavadi has contributed to dozens of newspapers, magazines, broadcast services, and websites in Europe, the U.S., the Middle East, Central Asia, and the Caucasus. He has published numerous books and dozens of articles, reports, and interviews on languages, literature, socio-linguistics, politics, culture, and history of Iran, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Central Asia, and the Middle East.

Education: BA in German Studies and MA in Linguistics, University of Ankara (Turkey); Ph.D. in German Studies, Linguistics, and Oriental Studies, University of Cologne (Germany).

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