Jahid Mohseni (born January 25, 1971), along with his brothers Saad and Zaid Mohseni and his sister Wajma Mohseni, established

MOBY Group Moby Media Group (Pashto: د موبي ډله/Dari: گروه موبی) is the largest media company in Afghanistan. Moby Group is privately owned, with headquarters in Kabul and 15 bureaus throughout Afghanistan. The company also has an office in D ...

, Afghanistan's most diverse media company with interests in television, radio, print, web and directories, IT&T, and retail. Jahid is CEO of Moby Group. A founder of Moby, Jahid has led the creation and development of Moby Media and Afghanistan's contemporary media industry to an internationally respected, and domestically market leading multi-outlet operation. He has established himself as an Afghan, spreading the

Dari Dari (; endonym: ), Dari Persian (, , or , ), or Eastern Persian is the variety of the Persian language spoken in Afghanistan. Dari is the Afghan government's official term for the Persian language;Lazard, G.Darī – The New Persian ...

and

Pashto Pashto ( , ; , ) is an eastern Iranian language in the Indo-European language family, natively spoken in northwestern Pakistan and southern and eastern Afghanistan. It has official status in Afghanistan and the Pakistani province of Khyb ...

well beyond Afghanistan. Prior to Moby, Jahid headed Afghan Government's Afghan Aid Co-ordination Authority (AACA) responsible for coordinating donor assistance to

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. It is bordered by Pakistan to the Durand Line, east and south, Iran to the Afghanistan–Iran borde ...

and has over 15 years in management, development and business.

References

Edmonton Journal "UNCOVERING AFGHAN MEDIA" (March 2009)The Baltimore Sun "Censorship blurry for Afghan TV" (Feb 2009)Charlies Rose “A Conversation with Saad Mohseni” (January 2008)NPR “Afghan TV Station to Fight Soap Opera Ban” (April 2008)NPR “Emerging Afghan Media Triggering Change” (September 2007)Marketplace/Public Radio “Radical Change on Afghanistan’s Airwaves” (October 2006)ABC Television “Afghan TV” (November 2006)SBS Television “Revolutionary TV (August 2005)
* ttps://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/13/AR2007091302444.html Washington Post “Reaching his Prime Time in Afghanistan” (September 2007)br>New York Times “Amid War, Passion for TV Chefs, Soaps and Idols” (August 2007)
* ttps://money.cnn.com/2006/01/06/magazines/fortune/kabul_fortune/index.htm Fortune “ Cobbling a Media Empire in Kabul” (January 2006)

External links

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