Sayeed Raheen Makhdoom

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Dr. Sayed Makhdoom Raheen is Minister of Information of Afghanistan.

[edit] Biography

Sayeed Raheen Makhdoom was born in 1925 in Kabul. After graduation in Afghanistan, he went to Tehran, Iran to get his Masters and Doctorate degrees, and got his PhD from Tehran University in 1952. Afterwards, he served as a lecturer in Kabul University. Then he was the director of Arts and Culture of Information and Culture ministry.

Sayeed Raheen Makhdoom was appointed as the Minister of Information and Culture during the interim government in 2002. He was elected as the Director of the Council of Kabul residents in September 2003. He was given a medal of freedom of expression and culture by the Father of the Nation in 2004^[1] .