He also worked as the BBC World Service bureau chief and editor in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2010 and 2011. Azami is a visiting lecturer at the University of Westminster, London, and specializes in international relations, conflict studies, and media and culture. He was selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2011, and in 2009 was the youngest person ever to win the BBC’s Global Reith Award for Outstanding Contribution. He served as an Asia-Pacific analyst for Freedom of the Press.