Alim Aliev
Born (1988-08-02) August 2, 1988 (age 35)
Chirchiq, Tashkent Region, Uzbekistan
NationalityCrimean Tatar
CitizenshipUkraine

Alim Aliev (Ukrainian — Алім Алієв) is the Deputy Director General of the Ukrainian Institute. Human rights defender, curator of educational and cultural projects, researcher, journalist and essayist. Founder of the Ukrainian-Crimean Tatar literary project "Crimean Fig / Qırım inciri". Board member of PEN Ukraine.[1] Co-founder of "CrimeaSOS" NGO.[2] Co-author of a book “Mustafa Dzhemilev. Unbreakable” about Crimean Tatars leader.[3] Member of the supervisory boards of several Ukrainian NGO. Previously, he was the program director of the Crimean House,[4] a journalist for the Crimean newspaper "Avdet",[5] and a communications consultant at the pro.mova expert company.

Biography

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Alim Aliev was born on August 2, 1988, in the city of Chirchiq, Uzbekistan, because his family was deported there (like the families of all Crimean Tatars) by the Soviet regime in 1944. In 1989, his family returned to Crimea, like most Crimean Tatars.

In 2005, he enrolled at V.I. Vernadsky Taurida National University, where he later obtained a master's degree in political science.

He is a graduate of the European Diplomatic Summer School at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic and Summer Institute in Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California.[6]

He graduated from the Open World program in 2014, the "Responsible Leadership" seminar at the Aspen Institute in Ukraine in 2019[7] and CEO development program at Kyiv Mohyla Business School in 2024.

Professional career

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From 2006 to 2010, Alim Aliyev worked as a journalist at the Crimean newspaper "Avdet" and authored the research project "20 Most Influential Crimean Tatars."[8]

From 2008 to 2016, he worked as an analyst and communication consultant at the "pro.mova" expert company. He was involved in the development of media and communication strategies, values research, conducted training in communication and media analytics for over 70 companies and organizations. He also organized events for the media in Ukraine, including one involving former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright in 2014.[9] Alim Aliev participated in a project on qualitative analysis methods for leading research companies in Georgia commissioned by the Central Election Commission of Georgia as part of his work at pro.mova.[10]

On February 27, 2014, Alim Aliev, together with activist Tamila Tasheva and journalist Sevgil Musaieva, founded the CrimeaSOS NGO. [11]

Alim Aliev is a co-founder of the cultural center "Crimean House in Lviv," established at the end of 2014.[12] Since 2010, he has been organizing the "Days of Crimean Tatar Culture in Lviv."[13] In collaboration with Sevgil Musaieva, he co-authored the book-conversation with the leader of the Crimean Tatar people, "Mustafa Dzhemilev. Unbreakable."[14]

From August 2017 to August 2020, he worked as the program director of the state enterprise "Crimean House."[15] He curated and coordinated numerous discussions, exhibitions, workshops, presentations, concerts, lectures, round tables, and forums.[16]

In 2018, he became the founder of the Ukrainian-Crimean Tatar literary project "Crimean Fig", which he coordinates together with Anastasia Levkova. The project includes a literary contest for poets, writers, translators, and essayists, the publication of an anthology, and the organization of a festival of the same name.[17]

He is one of the curators of the exhibition "Amazing Stories of Crimea" at the Mystetskyi Arsenal, which opened in 2019.[18] He is the creator of Crimean programs at national and international conferences, forums and festivals (Book Arsenal, Lviv Media Forum, and BookForum Lviv, Crimea Platform).

He is a delegate in advocacy missions for the Council of Europe, the European Parliament, the OSCE, the UN Security Council. In March 2019, he delivered a speech at the UN Security Council on the changes that occurred in Crimea during 5 years of the peninsula's occupation.[19]

Since June 2019, he has been the initiator of the creation of the digital museum of the deportation of Crimean Tatars, "Tamırlar."[20]

Since August 2020, he has been the Deputy Director General of the Ukrainian Institute.[21]

He focuses on the topics of Crimea and Crimean Tatars, decolonisation, promotion of Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar culture, human rights and media.

Awards

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In 2021, he was awarded the "Order of Merit" by the President of Ukraine.[22]

References

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  1. ^ "Alim Aliev". PEN Ukraine. 12 March 2022. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
  2. ^ "Alim Aliev. Ukraine's Next Generation". UrkStream. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
  3. ^ Aliev, Alim (19 May 2024). "Media Coverage of Crimea's Decade Under Occupation". No. 2. London Ukrainian Review. Retrieved 30 May 2024. Cco-author of Mustafa Dzhemilev. Unbreakable (2017), a book about the leader of the Crimean Tatars.
  4. ^ Iwona Reichardt; Margarita Novikova (5 February 2020). "We do not have another motherland". New Eastern Europe. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
  5. ^ Natalia Vorozhbyt; Anastasiia Kosodii (2021). Crimea, 5 am (PDF). Kharkiv: IST Publishing. p. 15. ISBN 978-617-7948-12-3.
  6. ^ Ukrainian Institute (2022). "ANNUAL REPORT 2022" (PDF). Ukrainian Institute. p. 57. Retrieved 30 May 2024. In July, UI Deputy Director General Alim Aliev attended the CPD Summer Institute of the University of Southern California's Center on Public Diplomacy (as part of the Ukrainian Public Diplomacy Enhancement Programme).
  7. ^ "Aspen Institute's Kyiv Community Council". The Aspen Institute Kyiv. 6 February 2023. Retrieved 30 May 2024. Alim Aliev ("Responsible Leadership" alumni).
  8. ^ Асіф Алієв (10 April 2024). "Алім Алієв, програмний директор «Кримського дому», який застряг в Індії: Для мене дуже дивно, коли я ходжу і випрошую фінанси на неймовірно важливі проєкти для розвитку кримськотатарської мови, ідентичності, політики пам'яті". Інтерв'ю з України (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 30 May 2024. У 2009 році у виданні «Авдет» ви були автором рейтингового дослідження «20 найвпливовіших кримських татар». А чи можете зараз назвати експромтом п'ять найвпливовіших кримських татар сьогодення?
  9. ^ "Alim Aliev". PEN Ukraine. 12 March 2022. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
  10. ^ Iryna Vyrtosu (2019). Crimean Album: Stories of Human Rights Defenders (PDF). Kyiv: KBC. p. 223. ISBN 978-966-2403-16-9. Retrieved 20 May 2024. Before the occupation, he worked in the Pro.Mova consulting company, lived in Lviv, and later coordinated the Lviv direction of the Crimea-SOS.
  11. ^ Iryna Vyrtosu (2019). Crimean Album: Stories of Human Rights Defenders (PDF). Kyiv: KBC. p. 223. ISBN 978-966-2403-16-9. Retrieved 20 May 2024. Crimea-SOS was born on the night of February 27, 2014, in the publication on Facebook which informed about the seizure of the administrative building in Simferopol, cordoning off by "little green men". Three Crimean residents – Tamila Tasheva, Sevgil Musayeva88 and Alim Aliyev89 – became the initiators as they tried to find out what was happening and inform others.
  12. ^ Kostiantyn Yanchenko (11 May 2016). "Crimean Tatars find new home in traditional Lviv". Euromaidan Press. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
  13. ^ Олеся Яремчук; Вадим Рибін (16 February 2017). "Випробування відстанню «Крим SOS»: як кримські татари об'єдналися заради нового життя". The Ukrainians (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 30 May 2024. — Нам добре працюється з управлінням культури Львівської міської ради, — зазначає Алім. — Ми з Іриною Магдиш свого часу започаткували фестиваль кримськотатарської культури, зараз ця співпраця продовжується.
  14. ^ "Crimean Tatars: 80 Years of Remembrance and Resistance". Ukrainian Institut London. May 2024. Retrieved 30 May 2024. co-author of Mustafa Dzhemilev. Unbreakable, a book about the leader of the Crimean Tatars.
  15. ^ Iwona Reichardt; Margarita Novikova (5 February 2020). "We do not have another motherland". New Eastern Europe. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
  16. ^ "Crimean Tatar shot revival". Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people. 9 May 2018. Retrieved 30 May 2024. The moderator was Alim Aliev, program director of the state enterprise "Crimean House"
  17. ^ "'Hope matters': Ukrainian and international authors on why literature is important in times of conflict". The Guardian. 6 October 2022. Retrieved 30 May 2024. There are more than 140 Crimean political prisoners like him, and some of them write texts in Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar languages, which my colleagues and I have published in the anthology Crimean Fig.
  18. ^ "AMAZING STORIES OF CRIMEA". Mystetskyi Arsenal. 2019. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
  19. ^ "Arria-formula Meeting on Crimea". Security Council Report. 14 March 2019. Retrieved 30 May 2024. Panel presentations are anticipated from Sergei Kyslytsya, Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine; Alim Aliev, Program Director of Crimean House; Ayla Bakkali, executive member of the World Congress of Crimean Tatars; and Ahtem Chyihoz, Vice Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar.
  20. ^ "About the project". Tamırlar. 2019. Retrieved 30 May 2024. Alim Aliev Author of the idea, Coordinator
  21. ^ "Our team". Ukrainian Institute. Retrieved 30 May 2024. Alim Aliev Deputy Director
  22. ^ "Президент вручив нагороди видатним українцям та дипломатам: Дякуємо за те, що ви є". PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE (in Ukrainian). 31 August 2020. Retrieved 30 May 2024. Орденом «За заслуги» ІІІ ступеня нагороджені правозахисник, заступник генерального директора Українського інституту Алім Алієв