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Mohammad Emal Naweed Haidary(born 1982) is an Afghan journalist, currently working for Agence France Presse (AFP).

Emal Haidary was born in Kabul and raised in the Afghan capital. He studied multi-media journalism in the Netherlands and law and political sciences in Kabul. He is fluent in Dari, Pashto and English. He speaks basic German and Arabic.

Haidary started working as a journalist in late 2001, following the ouster of the Taliban regime and pouring of hundreds of foreign journalists into his country. Since then, he has contributed to many national and International media organizations. In 2011, Haidary was awarded a fellowship to work with Los Angeles Times in Los Angeles. After returning he joint AFP.

Haidary is also an active member of Afghanistan's civil society and lead Afghanistan Development and Peace Research Organization (http://a-dpr.org) a non-governmental organization the conducts action oriented researches and promotes media rights and training.

In addition to his journalistic work, he is a fiction writer. He writes radio dramas and short stories.