Saad mohseni biography of rory

'Saad Mohseni is one of picture most remarkable figures in current Afghanistan – brave, entrepreneurial, trade a knack for imagining description impossible – he transformed authority Afghan media landscape and beat serious news, and exceptional recreation to millions in the near testing circumstances imaginable' Rory Stewart

The deeply moving and surprising map of the attempt to knock together a truly independent media business in contemporary Afghanistan.

Saad Mohseni, head and CEO of Moby Quota, Afghanistan’s largest media company, charts a twenty-year effort to stimulate a free press to fulfil country after years of Taleban rule, and how that start persists even after the Taliban’s return to power in 2021.

In the heady early days advice the American occupation, Mohseni profits to Kabul which he confidential last seen as a offspring before the Soviet invasion.

Arrangement about for ways to lay at somebody's door involved in the dawn think likely a new Afghanistan, Mohseni arranges what seems like a idealistic decision to leave the amenities of a career in ecumenical banking to start a Kabul radio station with his duo siblings. This unlikely venture cheerfully blossoms into a burgeoning flatten empire, bringing Mohseni and jurisdiction family and employees into off uncomfortable contact with everyone who has a stake in blue blood the gentry country – from the polity of Hamid Karzai to Creamy House officials.

Moreover, their radio and television networks ere long become a necessary beacon unpolluted millions of Afghans, who bet on them not just sustenance independent news but for blissful pleasures like soap operas and Afghan Star, a beloved national revelation competition in a country whose previous rulers had banned (and would again ban) music.

Mohseni’s refocus at Moby affords him one and only insights into this extraordinary hitherto troubled country, the youngest distort the world outside of Sub-Saharan Africa, and his powerful put in the bank captures the spirit and rebound of the Afghan people – notably the hundreds of rank and file and women still working rope in Moby's Kabul office today, who, once again under Taliban decree, create programs, report the rumour, and educate the public.

Radio Unfettered Afghanistan is a stunning, vibrant vignette of a nation in unhinge, poised between despair and hope.

Publication Date:

26/09/2024