Shabir Ahmad Salimi

Shabir Ahamd Salimi is a journalist, writer, and social activist from Afghanistan. He attended Kabul University's faculty of language and literature. He worked in Afghanistan for a number of different national, international, and media organizations. He has been a local employee of a German organization in Afghanistan since 2020.

Shabir translated several books from English to Pashto, but only two of them have been published. His first book (How to Talk to Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere) by Larry King was published in 2017, while his second book (Nelson Mandela) was published in 2018. He has translated, edited, and written for several collaborative projects in addition to penning hundreds of pieces in Pashto.

Shabir moved to Germany in 2021, and became a member of Afghanistan team for Handbook Germany : Together in April 2022, and he is working now as a community manager for the Pashto platform.