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Line 4: <!-- End of AfD message, feel free to edit beyond this point -->{{Infobox officeholder \|name = Naeem Abdurrahman Gheriany <br>‫ نعيم عبد الرحمن الغرياني \|image = ~~Dr_Naeem_Gheriany_001.jpg~~ \|office = [[Cabinet of Libya\|Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research]] \|primeminister = [[Abdurrahim El-Keib]] Line 36: Gheriany was an active member of the Libyan opposition to the former regime of Muammar Gaddafi. His political activities began during his undergraduate years in the mid 1970s when he was active among the Libyan students in the US and later participated in the founding of the General Union for the Students of Libya in North America. In the late 1970s he participated in various efforts to organize the Libyan opposition movement abroad, and was a founding member of the National Front for the Salvation of Libya in the early 1980s, and a member of its Permanent Bureau through the 1980s<ref>http://www.wrmea.com/component/content/article/369-2011-may-june/10494-waging-peace-libyans-residing-in-us-and-canada-ask-for-help.html</ref>. Gheriany's activism has spanned several decades and continued throughout the [[Libyan ~~Civil~~civil ~~War~~war]], when he acted as a leader of the Libyan-American diaspora and as a Libyan affairs expert to the media. He also acted as a spokesman for the Libyan-American community through several press conferences during the first few months of the revolution that called on the United States and the international community to support the Libyan uprising by recognizing the [[National Transitional Council\|NTC]], condemning the Gaddafi regime and providing aid through international humanitarian organizations to the Libyan people in their time of need.<ref>http://www.c-spanvideo.org/appearance/599692838</ref><ref>http://pomed.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/POMED-Notes_Libyan-Outreach-Group-Press-Conference.pdf</ref> Additionally, Gheriany holds advisory positions for several Libyan organizations, such as The American-Libyan Council<ref>http://americanlibyancouncil.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3&Itemid=2</ref> and the International Forum for Libyan Experts<ref>http://www.libyanexpertsforum.org/en/organizers</ref>. == Career ==

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