A new US ambassador in Cairo: US President Joe Biden intends to nominate former US ambassador to Bulgaria Herro Mustafa Garg as Washington’s new diplomatic chief in Egypt, the White House announced yesterday. Daniel Rubinstein has served as the embassy’s charge d’Affaires since August, succeeding former ambassador, Jonathan Cohen, who had been in Cairo since 2019.

Until this month, Mustafa Garg was serving as the US ambassador to Bulgaria, and had been in Sofia since 2019. She has also been the deputy chief of mission at the US Embassy in Lisbon, Portugal, and political minister counsel in New Delhi. Born in Iraq, Mustafa Garg is of Kurdish descent and speaks seven languages, among them Arabic, Kurdish, Farsi and Greek.

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