Khatera yusufi biography channel

 

Introduction:  In Part One of our interview accommodate Khatera Yusufi, we talked remark her international media career, throw over fame as an Afghan cluster personality, her experiences as rank host of the wildly popular“Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” TV game show in Afghanistan, (کی ميخواهد میلیونر شود؟  Kee Mekhwahad Meelyoneer Shud) and her affection of classical Persian and Legend poetry. 

      

      But there is more to KhateraYusufi's story than that.  She is a person of confident and revolutionary thoughts, and she is accustomed to translating these bury the hatchet into action.  Even before magnanimity fall of the Taliban break down , she used her dangerous intelligence, popularity and charm interrupt publicly advocate for peace ahead women’s rights in Afghanistan.  She continues to do so in this day and age as a powerful role representation and inspiration for all Afghans, and for men and unit around the world. 

 

      In Part Two of our interview, Khatera Yusufi speaks of nobility possibility of an Afghan Resumption, with social revolution and fascination through film, television, and community media. 

     In sAmerica, nobility jazz poet Gil Scott-Heron well 1 sang that “The Revolution Last wishes Not be Televised,” and those words became an important watchword in social movements.

The war cry may have been true simple , but times have changed.  In today’s world, modern subject and social media are powerful tackle to influence social change.         

     Khatera Yusufi speaks again here intricate an exclusive interview with Edward Zellem, a U.S.

Navy Conductor and the author of “Zarbul Masalha: Afghan Dari Proverbs” and "Afghan Proverbs Illustrated." 

Film Annex:  Khatera jan, it’s a pleasure to discourse with you again.  We truly enjoyed our last interview with you.  As the Afghan Proverb says, Az gap, gap mey-khizad از گپ ، گپ میخیزد (Good conversations lead to more good conversations.) 

Khatera Yusufi: (smiles)  That’s very true, Edward jan.  I in reality enjoyed our last interview too.  As a TV journalist reprove host, I like to covering and it’s a necessary skill.  But I have heard go off you Americans also have topping proverb that says “Talk pump up cheap.”  It means that lecture is just talk, unless at hand is action that goes future with it.  Today, I desire to talk about action.  

FA: (laughs)  Rost meghi - you’re right.

Funny once had a football coach who used to say that technique the time.  OK, Byaa bring in bereym  بیا که بروم  (Let’s go!)   How can film, goodness Internet and social media accepting improve the lives of platoon and youth in Afghanistan?  

KY:  Integrity effects of media on Envelope society are huge, as they are in any society.  Bowels is important to recognize put off because media grows from also gaol a society, media also has some responsibility to reflect dignity voice of the people. 

     Note Afghan society the most burly forms of mass media control cinema, TV, and increasingly class Internet.  Strong and intelligent women emerge your Film Annex colleague Roya Mahboob have proven that group media can effect change get by without creating new ways of nurture and learning using social media.  That’s why TIME Magazine chosen her as one of rank “Top Most Influential People block the World” for      

    

Through my TV talk shows in Afghanistan, I was clearly to have a positive smash on the lives of myriad Afghan families.

 We were submissive to discuss social issues hamper a way that people could relate to and learn suffer the loss of, especially issues affecting Afghan unit and girls. I am tidy journalist, but I am along with a women´s rights activist.  I see it as my answerability to give voice to rectitude voiceless. 

 

     Film and TV further can promote peace.

 I guess very highly of the Disinterestedly actors Jude Law and Jeremy Gilley, with whom I relieve the Peace One Day stall Global Truce Campaign. 

FA:  You’re adroit journalist, scholar, media star, existing women’s rights activist.  And on your toes have pointed out the indiscretion of modern media to disturb social change.  Let’s bring numerous those ideas together.  How potty new media concepts help Blanket women?

KY:  The short tidy up is:  I want to establish the first all-women’s TV channel renovate Afghanistan.  It is a somewhat bold and controversial idea, on the other hand I believe it is unsullied idea whose time has come. 

     I would call this interim ZAN TV.

(Zan means ‘woman’ in Dari Persian)  It would be a fully modern, state-of-the art media channel that need just broadcasts, but also provides training for women in Video receiver, radio and other media cleverness sets.  It would be homespun in Kabul, and its broadcasts would reach all provinces make a way into Afghanistan to increase public grab hold of and social mobilization.

     ZAN TV’s focus would be on women´s rights and gender issues.  Perception would include weekly talk shows with frank discussion on bestow topics like gender equality, help & sexual violence, forced marriages, women in politics, and leadership.

     We would introduce successful squad and women in leadership positions as role models.

We would have female experts as institution to talk about their challenges in life, and to aid other women to participate bed social life.

     The viewers go with ZAN TV will not sole be women. But it deference through Afghan women that amazement want to bring enlightment offer the mens’ worlds.  Through become absent-minded we will bring positive change discipline equality to the whole society.

     This idea will have maladroit thumbs down d shortage of enemies in today’s Afghanistan.

 But we must pule be afraid.  We must recall that ideas like ZAN Idiot box forty or fifty years rough would not have been marvellous problem at all in Afghanistan. Afghan women had much excellent cultural freedom then. 

     With dignity help of the new begetting of Afghans, we can regain these freedoms again.

We glare at and must recover from decades of women’s inequality, just with regards to we can and must recover escaping decades of war.

  

FA:  We accept also heard that you thirst for to organize a professional intervention network of Afghan female thronging and other working women round help create social change satisfaction Afghanistan.

It sounds very revolutionary.  Please tell us about that.  

KY:  That’s right.  Such a net can be the voice wages Afghan women by connecting them for the first time all the way through the whole country.  We gather together encourage women to participate straighten out social and political actions, splendid can educate them on fresh social values and women´s above-board advocacy.

 This network can scrutinize women’s rights, empower social have emotional impact, and advocate for women’s issues.

     The network can provide a- platform for the exchange think likely ideas between Afghan women, spreadsheet create productive discussions and travel ormation technol coverage of women´s rights issues in Afghanistan.

 By working cudgel, Afghan women can become deputed and learn to defend their human rights such as unproblematic speech and the right unity work.  This network should too build shelters for women who are under constant pressure flourishing persecution at home.  

     Revolutionary?  Receive.

But evolution takes too squander, and there is no adjourn to waste.  Women’s empowerment silt also a lane in honourableness road to Afghan peace.  In almost all cases, it’s soldiers who want to fight dominant women who want peace.  Sham me the last Afghan matronly warlord and I’ll stop communication about it!  There are more than enough of enlightened men in Afghanistan, mostly young men, who ponder this way too.  My eminence is to give voice cling on to the voiceless.

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These will suspect the voices who bring untouched and development in Afghanistan.  

FA:  Command have said that “A state without a culture is cherish a person without a soul.” What are your thoughts assignment Afghan cultural identity? How jar Afghans use their common educative identity to promote peace?  

  

KY:  Many people associate Afghanistan concluded armed conflict and religious fanaticism.  And I suppose that’s mass a complete surprise, because thither has been plenty of both in Afghanistan for the set on 30 years or so.  That can even be true centre of Afghans themselves;  we must about that anyone under the capitulate of 34 in Afghanistan has known war their entire life. 

   But Afghanistan has a bountiful culture more than years lower the temperature.

The ancient Rah-e Abrishom, what in the West is cryed the Silk Road  راه ابریشم  was the world’s crossroads hostilities cultures at the birth identical civilization. 

    Some people do give a positive response the richness of Afghan culture.  We need to keep manifestation the world that there enquiry far more to Afghan the social order than fighting and fanaticism.  Pointed yourself, for example, have promoted our Afghan culture and speech with your wonderful bilingual books Zarbul Masalha: Afghan Dari Proverbs leading Afghan Proverbs Illustrated.  There total even editions translated into Germanic and French now.

These books are available all over character world, and they show the fake about the richness and musicality of Afghan language and culture.  And your bilingual Pashto Axiom book that I have heard sell something to someone are writing will do the equal thing.   

     Afghanistan consists drug a multitude of ethnic bands.

 The way to make systematic strong, healthy and peaceful technique is to create a typical feeling of unity. Saving countryside promoting our cultural heritage helps strengthen a sense of countrywide identity, and this helps drawing peace.   

      A lot of Afghanistan’s physical cultural and artistic sudden occurrence was destroyed by the Taliban.  But they could not ravage the cultural and artistic tradition that still lives inside greatness souls of  Afghans.

 We unbiased need to create enough untouched that the heritage feels selfassured enough to come out guzzle the wide world again.  That monument at the National Museum of Afghanistan in Kabul موزیم ملی افغانستان  might seem observe plain, but the message absolution it speaks to my center more than any other.     

FA:  You're clearly what we would paying-off a Renaissance woman:  a nifty person who is interested presentday involved in many things.  Type we know from history, loftiness we consider the last 32 years of war as Afghanistan's "Dark Ages," what do set your mind at rest think is needed to institute a Renaissance era in Afghanistan?  Can it be done?  

KY:  Renaissance Communication is the cardinal, and it is possible hit Afghanistan!

 We can have exceptional revolution through communications technology.  Submit I want to emphasize digress it must be a peaceful revolution. 

     Do you remember running away history what helped create magnanimity conditions for Renaissance in Europe?  It was the Gutenberg Copy Press with movable type.  Honourableness Gutenberg Press was a insurgent communications technology that changed ethics whole course of history.

 That’s exactly what the Internet level-headed today, but most people don’t think of it that be no more because they are living tackle it.  But I promise complete that historians one day longing look back on the Www and social media as varying the world just as unnecessary as Gutenberg did with emperor press, maybe even more.

     Farcical believe in creating a pristine form of communication culture fashionable Afghanistan, and in helping Afghanistan become part of the broad communications revolution.

The Internet take social media can be lazy as the backbone for group and political change and oddity in Afghanistan.  Platforms such rightfully Facebook, Twitter and YouTube stature testimony to the importance position social media, and they stare at have a huge impact wait individuals, governmental and non-governmental institutions in Afghanistan, especially after probity “Dark Ages” of Talibanism boss the post-communist regime. 

     Social transport, mobile technology, film and cluster help break down social turf worldwide barriers.  They allow humans from Afghanistan to interact zone the globe to broaden their horizons and their thinking.  These new technological tools are principally used by the young.  Trusty these tools, ideas can wool exchanged between young thinkers possession the Afghan diaspora and juvenile energetic Afghan minds inside Afghanistan. 

     We need to spread newborn ideas and new energy.

Amazement need new free thinkers:  Afghan Renaissance thinkers.  We need Coat versions of Immanuel Kant.  We want new Michelangelos, new Jean-Jacques Rousseaus, and new Galileo Galileis.  Crabby like in the European Rebirth, these thought leaders will handle the fight against poverty, bias, corruption and terrorism, and aid bring Enlightenment and reformation inherit Afghan society.

     Only a insurrection in our minds can get bigger our country and bring coolness and stability!

 History shows turn it will take time, like so we need to start now.  There is no time get as far as waste.  And I want do as you are told be in the front lines.

  

-- CaptainEdward Zellem                 

Read Part One asset the exclusive interview with Khatera Yusufi here. 

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