Biden Nominates Hiro Mustafa as Ambassador to Egypt

According to Reuters, U.S. President Joe Biden intends to nominate diplomat Hiro Mustafa as ambassador to Egypt. The White House stated that Hiro Mustafa's previous positions include serving as ambassador to Bulgaria from 2019 to 2023 and holding senior roles at the U.S. embassies in Lisbon and New Delhi. Hiro hails from a Kurdish family, born in Erbil in 1973 in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, and spent two years of her childhood in a refugee camp before arriving with her family, who sought political asylum in the United States in 1976, as her father was a political activist opposing Saddam Hussein's regime. After her family settled in the U.S., she studied in the early educational stages in North Dakota and obtained her undergraduate degree from Georgetown University in 1995, majoring in national security and Middle Eastern studies. She later earned a master's degree in international relations from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.