Mustafa Nayyem
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Mustafa Masi Nayyem (Ukrainian: Мустафа Найєм, Pashto: مصطفی نعیم; born June 28, 1981) is an Afghan-Ukrainian journalist, MP, lecturer at the Kyiv School of Economics,[2] and public figure who was influential in sparking the Euromaidan in Ukraine.[3] Since January 2023 Nayyem is the head of the State Agency for Restoration and Infrastructure Development.[4] Prior to this he was Deputy Minister of Infrastructure appointed in August 2021.[2]
Mustafa Nayyem | |
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Мустафа Найєм مصطفى نعیم | |
People's Deputy of Ukraine | |
In office 27 November 2014[1] – 24 July 2019 | |
Constituency | Petro Poroshenko Bloc, No. 20 |
Personal details | |
Born | (1981-06-28) June 28, 1981 (age 42) Kabul, Democratic Republic of Afghanistan |
Political party | Democratic Alliance |
Other political affiliations | Petro Poroshenko Bloc (until August 2016) |
Alma mater | Kyiv Polytechnic Institute Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv[2] |
Occupation | Publicist, journalist for Kommersant, Ukrayinska Pravda, and Hromadske.TV |
Formerly, before his bureaucratic career Nayyem was a reporter for the newspaper Kommersant Ukraine, the TVi channel, and the online newspaper Ukrayinska Pravda. He also participates in Ukrainian journalists' anti-censorship movement, "Stop the censorship!" (Ukrainian: Стоп цензурі!, Stop tsenzuri!), and Hromadske.TV. In the parliamentary elections he was elected to the Ukrainian parliament on the list of Petro Poroshenko Bloc.[5][6] Nayyem did not take part in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[7]