{"id":11590,"date":"2025-04-22T06:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T02:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=11590"},"modified":"2025-04-22T06:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T02:00:12","slug":"marie-kabir-siraj-bishopping-named-deputy-assistant-secretary-of-state-for-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/marie-kabir-siraj-bishopping-named-deputy-assistant-secretary-of-state-for-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Marie Kabir-Siraj Bishopping Named Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Afghanistan."},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11591\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/mari-kabir.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0President Donald Trump has named Marie Kabir-Siraj Bishopping, 33, of Afghan descent, as the deputy assistant secretary of state for Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0In this role, Bishopping will be responsible for directing U.S. policy toward Afghanistan within the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0This is Trump\u2019s first political appointment in the Afghanistan field.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Bishopping, who was born and raised in California and is a descendant of the Afghan royal family, began her work in the role about two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0She holds a juris doctorate from the University of Virginia School of Law and a bachelor\u2019s degree from the University of California, Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0Bishopping is fluent in Persian and German. Thomas West and Reina Amiri previously served as U.S. special representatives for Afghanistan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0President Donald Trump has named Marie Kabir-Siraj Bishopping, 33, of Afghan descent, as the deputy assistant secretary of state for Afghanistan. \u00a0In this role, Bishopping will be responsible for directing U.S. policy toward Afghanistan within the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs. \u00a0This is Trump\u2019s first political appointment in the Afghanistan field. Bishopping, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11591,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-political","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11592,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11590\/revisions\/11592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}