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Atta Muhammad Nur (also spelled Atta Mohammed Noor Persian: عطا محمد نور) (born 1965) is a politician in Afghanistan serving as the Governor of Balkh Province in the north of the country. He was appointed in 2004 by President Hamid Karzai. An ethnic Tajik he was a high school teacher before the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan which earned him the nickname The Teacher. He then became an anti-Soviet mujahideen resistance commander for the Jamiat-e Islami.