Ghadir Razuki is a
British-Iraqi businessman who was the founder of
TNT Magazine
''TNT'' is a free weekly magazine published in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.
History
The magazine was founded in September 1983, from an office on the Earls Court Road, by two British Iraqi brothers, Ali and Ghadir Razuki. Thei ...
, in September 1983.
Early life
Born to
Iraqi parents, he moved to London in the United Kingdom after leaving Iraq.
In September 1983, then aged twenty-two he launched and published TNT Magazine, a travel magazine aimed at Australian, New Zealand and South African expatriates, in an
Earls Court Road
Earl's Court is a district of Kensington in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in West London, bordering the rail tracks of the West London line and District line that separate it from the ancient borough of Fulham to the west, the ...
office.
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Career
In 2000, Ghadir sold TNT Magazine to the Trader Media Group
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, an independent publishing company that would later be subject to hostile takeover by the Guardian
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* Legal guardian, a person with the authority and duty to care for the interests of another
* ''The Guardian'', a British daily newspaper
(The) Guardian(s) may also refer to:
Places
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newspaper.[
Ghadir has since become a Director of ]A-League
A-League Men, also known as the Isuzu UTE A-League for sponsorship reasons, is a professional soccer league in Australia and New Zealand and the highest level of the Australian soccer league system. Established in 2004 as the A-League by the ...
football club Melbourne City, formally known as Melbourne Heart
Melbourne City Football Club is an Australian professional Association football, soccer club based in the South-Eastern Metropolitan Region, South-Eastern region of Melbourne, Victoria. They compete in the A-League Men, the Australian soccer ...
.
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Razuki, Ghadir
Living people
Iraqi businesspeople
British businesspeople
British people of Iraqi descent
Year of birth missing (living people)