DR. AUSAF SAYEED, an officer of the 1989 Batch Indian Foreign Service (IFS) and presently serving as Joint Secretary (West Africa) at the Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi, has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Yemen. This was announced by the Ministry today.

Dr Ausaf Sayeed is one of the youngest IFS officers to be appointed as Ambassador.  He earlier worked in Indian Missions in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Denmark in various capacities.  He is a great patron of  art, culture and Urdu language and literature and was instrumental in organising several Mushairas (poetry sessions), seminars, symposia, humorous sessions and Ghazal and musical programmes. 

A gold medalist from Osmania University and a Competent Toastmaster (CTM), Dr Sayeed belongs to a literary family of Hyderabad.  His father Awaz Sayeed (late) was a renowned modern Urdu short story writer and his uncle, Prof. Mughni Tabassum, is a well-known Urdu poet and critic. Dr Sayeed has authored a book titled ‘Trends in Objective Geology for Civil Services and Other Competitive Examinations’. He has also compiled the Urdu book ‘Kuliyaat-e-Awaz Sayeed’, which comprises of the entire literary works of his father. He is also working on two other books, "Haj: an Indian Experience through the Ages" and “Indian Rubats, Madarsas and Wakfs in the Holy Cities of Makkah and Madinah”.

Dr Ausaf Sayeed is an Arab by descent with affiliation to the Al-Musalli clan. His paternal great grand-father served as a State Treasurer under the Sultan of Al-Mukalla in Southern Yemen during early 1900s, before migrating to Hyderabad  along with his teenage son Sayeed bin Abdullah and several other members of the Court of Mokalla to join the services of the Nizam of Hyderabad.

Dr Ausaf Sayeed is married to Farha, an accomplished painter and an egg artist. The couple has three sons, Faateh (18 yrs), Faaleh (15 yrs) and Azhaan (11 years). 

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