Archive Event Highlight
VIDEO: How Afghan Journalists Are Reinventing Themselves
On Dec. 13, the OPC held a panel with Afghan journalists to discuss the progress they have made and the challenges remaining more than one year after U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan and the Taliban returned to power. Speakers were Summia Tora, Afghanistan’s first Rhodes Scholar, a fellow at New America and member of an Afghan podcast team that produced “No Way Home,” a production for The Intercept; Zahra Nader, editor-in-chief of Zan Times, a media outlet that covers human rights in Afghanistan with a focus on women, the LGBT community and environmental issues; and Samiullah Mahdi, a former Voice of America correspondent who co-founded Amu TV, a digital news platform he that brings together journalists from within and outside Afghanistan to provide independent reporting in Farsi and Pashto. The moderator was Deborah Amos, a governor of the OPC and a longtime reporter at National Public Radio covering the Middle East.
The panelists discussed their work in Afghan media operating outside the country, their disappointment in lack of attention on Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover, and the stories they hope to see covered by the Western press in the future.
Click the window above to watch a playlist of video clips from the program.
