Education
Princeton University.
Princeton University.
Not to be confused with the political writer, game author and font designer, Dave Nalle. Born in Philadelphia, his study of Engineering at Princeton University was interrupted by World World War II where he served as a Naval Aviator. He returned to complete a degree in English after the war.
In the 1950s he joined the United States Information Agency and was assigned to the Middle East desk and eventually sent to Afghanistan.
During the 1960s he was posted in Iran, Syria and Jordan and began to develop a reputation as a linguist and expert on Central Asia and the Middle East. While in Iran he also served as director of the Iran-America Society.
He returned to the United States to head the United States Information Agency"s division for the Near East, South Asia and North Africa in the late 1960s and early 1970s and was then posted to Moscow as Press and Cultural Affairs Officer. After his tour in Moscow he returned to his prior supervisory position at United States Information Agency. He served a total of 28 years with the United States Information Agency. After retiring from the United States Information Agency he became the founding director of the Alfred Friendly Press Fellowship, a position which he held for 10 years, overlapping with his position as Washington editor of the Central Asia Monitor.
He has written on Middle East and Central Asian affairs for Middle East Journal and Middle East Policy.
He is the Chairman Emeritus of the Nava"i Lecture in Central Asian Studies at Georgetown University and currently teaches courses on Central Asia at OLLI/American University. He is on the National Advisory Committees of the Middle East Policy Council and the Alfred Friendly Foundation.