Dilshad Aliyarli

Dilshad Aliyarli (Azerbaijani: Dilşad Əliyarlı) is an Azerbaijani journalist and writer.

Dilshad Aliyarli
Born
Dilşad Əliyarlı

(1962-02-01) 1 February 1962
Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR
NationalityAzerbaijani
OccupationJournalist
Years active1996 - now
EmployerVoice of America
Parent(s)Suleyman Aliyarli

Biography

She was born on 1 February 1962 to Azerbaijani academicians Suleyman Aliyarli and Mira Aliyarli in Baku. She graduated from Baku State University with B.A. degree in Oriental Studies; further she studied Arabic at Bourguiba Institute of Modern Languages in Tunisia. She worked as a junior researcher for a while at Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan.[1]

Journalism

Aliyarli worked as a BBC Azerbaijani reporter in Sarajevo from 1996 to 1998. In 1998 she moved to the United States 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 Washington to Azerbaijan. She has covered Azerbaijan and United States for more than 20 years as an anchor, reporter, multimedia editor and producer.[2] She played a pivotal role in the launch of Azerbaijani television programming at VOA 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.[3]

Women's rights

She is a writer with a focus on women's rights. She writes mostly on gender equality, family matters and fashion on her blog - "Women's World"[4] (Azerbaijani: Qadın dünyası) besides "Visions of Azerbaijan"[5][6], "OK! Azerbaijan" and "Caspian Crossroads"[1].

Bibliography
  • 1999 - Claiming Our Rights: A Manual for Women's Human Rights Education in Muslim Societies (authored by Mahnaz Afkhami and Haleh Vaziri; Azerbaijani translation edited by Dilshad Aliyarli)
  • 2016 - Rainbow (Azerbaijani: Göy Qurşağı), Qanun, Baku
gollark: They're working to push the boundaries of magic knowledge.
gollark: Okay, great.
gollark: Magic research.
gollark: Is ubq an applied or theoretical thaumatologist?
gollark: A magic beekeeping convention.

References
  1. "Dilshad Aliyarli from Azerbaijan". www.edu-active.com. Retrieved 2019-06-27.
  2. "Dilşad Əliyarlı - VOA Author Bio - Amerikanın Səsi". www.amerikaninsesi.org. Retrieved 2019-06-27.
  3. "AzeriDiaspor" (in Azerbaijani). Retrieved 2019-06-27.
  4. "Qadın Dünyası". VOA (in Azerbaijani). Retrieved 2019-06-27.
  5. "Visions of Azerbaijan Magazine ::: Christian Louboutin – Red Soles, Elegant Women.....and Kurban Said". Visions of Azerbaijan Magazine. Retrieved 2019-06-27.
  6. "Visions of Azerbaijan Magazine ::: Chingiz Sadykhov - celebrated east and west -". Visions of Azerbaijan Magazine. Retrieved 2019-06-27.
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