Rafig Hashimov (born August 11, 1966) is an announcer of AzTV, tele-journalist, essayist, director.
Hashimov Rafig Mahammad was born in 1966. He graduated from âÂÂTelevision and radio equipmentâ faculty of Baku Communication Electronics technical school in 1985. He served in the Soviet Army in 1985âÂÂ1987.
In 1987, has started to work at Azerbaijan State Tele-radio Broadcast Company as technician. Afterwards, he worked as videographer, erector. Since 1990, works as an announcer. In 1997, has graduated âÂÂJournalismâ faculty of Baku State University. During these years, he was an announcer of âÂÂNewsâÂÂ, different state events, âÂÂXX centuryâ author program, âÂÂMorningâ program. He trained the announcers from âÂÂSpaceâÂÂ, âÂÂLeaderâ and âÂÂKhazarâ channels with their speeches, taught speech culture at âÂÂKhazarâ university for 4 years. His stories and essays, translations into Azerbaijani from the world classics literature, as well as from Nobel Prize laureate Hermann Hesse, Czeslaw Milosz, Jorge Luis Borxes, were published in the magazines and newspapers in our country. Over 20 featured-documentary films had been shot based on his scenarios. . According to the request by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, he had produced feature-documentary film named âÂÂUnfinished dairyâ dedicated to the Martyr Fuad Asadov in 2011 and documentary film named âÂÂSattarâÂÂs Azerbaijanâ dedicated to prominent Azerbaijani artist Sattar Bahlulzadeh in 2014. He prepared films and programs dedicated to the prominent figures of science, culture and art as the author and announcer of the cultural author program series âÂÂXX centuryâÂÂ. Since 2008, he is a member of the Writer's Union of Azerbaijan. On November 4, 1998, he was awarded to the title of the "Honored Artist of Azerbaijan" according to the decree by Nationwide Leader Heydar Aliyev.