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Afghanistan with Roh Yakobi - Podcast

Afghanistan with Roh Yakobi

Keeping Afghanistan in the spotlight through the stories of its people. 

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Update frequency
every 7 days
Average duration
53 minutes
Episodes
62
Years Active
2023 - 2025
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Shaharzad Akbar: The Taliban have a vision for Afghanistan

Shaharzad Akbar: The Taliban have a vision for Afghanistan

Shaharzad Akbar is the Executive Director of Rawadari and the former Chair of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission. In this interview, she reflects on and reviews 2024, shares her anal…

00:53:49  |   Sun 12 Jan 2025
Saad Mohseni: The extraordinary life of a media visionary

Saad Mohseni: The extraordinary life of a media visionary

Saad Mohseni is the Chairman and CEO of Moby Group, and the author of 'Radio Free Afghanistan'. Born in London, raised in Kabul, Tokyo and Melbourne, Saad Mohseni has been one of the most influential…

00:56:10  |   Tue 26 Nov 2024
Gen H.R. McMaster: Trump 2.0, Afghanistan and the Taliban

Gen H.R. McMaster: Trump 2.0, Afghanistan and the Taliban

General H.R. McMaster served as Donald Trump's National Security Advisor for 14 months during his first term and he formulated America's South Asia Strategy, which Trump abandoned after McMaster's de…

00:34:57  |   Sat 09 Nov 2024
Sune Rasmussen: Afghanistan is a part of me

Sune Rasmussen: Afghanistan is a part of me

Sune Engel Rasmussen is a Danish journalist and author who lived in Afghanistan, reporting extensively for several international outlets, including The Wall Street Journal and The Guardian.


In this in…

01:03:26  |   Sun 20 Oct 2024
Andrew North: My 20 years in Afghanistan

Andrew North: My 20 years in Afghanistan

Andrew North is an award-winning British journalist and former BBC correspondent in Afghanistan, Iraq, India, and the United States. He lived and reported from Afghanistan throughout two decades of i…

00:53:54  |   Fri 20 Sep 2024
Rahmatullah Nabil: The story of an Afghan spymaster (Part 2)

Rahmatullah Nabil: The story of an Afghan spymaster (Part 2)

Rahmatullah Nabil is an Afghan politician and former intelligence chief. Having lost his father at the age of one, he was raised by his mother, who dedicated her life to him. Nabil left school and jo…

00:54:25  |   Fri 13 Sep 2024
Rahmatullah Nabil: The story of an Afghan spymaster (Part 1)

Rahmatullah Nabil: The story of an Afghan spymaster (Part 1)

Rahmatullah Nabil is an Afghan politician and former intelligence chief. Having lost his father at the age of one, he was raised by his mother, who dedicated her life to him. Nabil left school and jo…

00:53:07  |   Fri 06 Sep 2024
Sir William Patey: The Taliban cannot turn Kabul into a Pashtun village

Sir William Patey: The Taliban cannot turn Kabul into a Pashtun village

Sir William Patey is a retired British diplomat with extensive experience in Middle Eastern and South Asian geopolitics. He served as the UK Ambassador to Kabul from 2010 to 2012, following earlier r…

00:54:25  |   Fri 30 Aug 2024
Mark Urban: Marching onto Kabul with Ahmad Shah Massoud

Mark Urban: Marching onto Kabul with Ahmad Shah Massoud

Mark Urban is a British journalist, broadcaster, and best-selling author of many books, including War in Afghanistan and The Skripal Files. He has covered Afghanistan extensively since the late 1980s…

01:05:23  |   Fri 23 Aug 2024
Sir Laurie Bristow: Why did we get it so badly wrong for 20 years?

Sir Laurie Bristow: Why did we get it so badly wrong for 20 years?

Sir Laurie Bristow, the UK's last ambassador in Kabul, witnessed the disintegration of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the fall of Kabul into the hands of the Taliban in August 2021. He is th…

01:05:37  |   Fri 16 Aug 2024
Thomas Barfield: Time to break up Afghanistan? (Part 2)

Thomas Barfield: Time to break up Afghanistan? (Part 2)

Professor Thomas Barfield is one of the preeminent experts on Afghanistan, having spent over five decades studying and writing on the country. He is the author of 'Afghanistan: A Cultural and Politic…

00:56:35  |   Sat 10 Aug 2024
Thomas Barfield: Time to break up Afghanistan? (Part 1)

Thomas Barfield: Time to break up Afghanistan? (Part 1)

Professor Thomas Barfield is one of the preeminent experts on Afghanistan, having spent over five decades studying and writing on the country. He is the author of 'Afghanistan: A Cultural and Politic…

00:56:50  |   Sat 18 May 2024
Artemis Akbary: The costs of being gay in Afghanistan

Artemis Akbary: The costs of being gay in Afghanistan

Artemis Akbary is an LGBTIQ rights activist and the co-founder and Executive Director of the Afghan LGBT Organization (ALO), and a producer/presenter at Radio Ranginkaman. They have spoken and campai…

01:03:23  |   Fri 03 May 2024
Thomas Ruttig: The untold story of Germany in Afghanistan (Part 2)

Thomas Ruttig: The untold story of Germany in Afghanistan (Part 2)

Thomas Ruttig is a co-founder of the Afghanistan Analysts Network. He has worked on and in Afghanistan since he graduated in Afghan Studies from Humboldt University, Berlin in 1985: as an East German…

00:47:03  |   Fri 26 Apr 2024
Thomas Ruttig: The untold story of Germany in Afghanistan (Part 1)

Thomas Ruttig: The untold story of Germany in Afghanistan (Part 1)

Thomas Ruttig is a co-founder of the Afghanistan Analysts Network. He has worked on and in Afghanistan since he graduated in Afghan Studies from Humboldt University, Berlin in 1985: as an East German…

00:43:56  |   Fri 19 Apr 2024
Fereshta Abbasi: I am lucky to be alive

Fereshta Abbasi: I am lucky to be alive

Fereshta Abbasi is the Afghanistan Researcher at Human Rights Watch and a Chevening Scholar. Born a refugee in Iran, she was taken to Afghanistan as a child, where she pursued her education, eventual…

01:09:25  |   Fri 12 Apr 2024
Llewelyn Morgan: The Buddhas of Bamiyan

Llewelyn Morgan: The Buddhas of Bamiyan

Llewelyn Morgan is a professor of Classics at the University of Oxford. He is the author of "The Buddhas of Bamiyan", a book that explores the long and complex history of the Buddha statues in Bamiya…

01:06:43  |   Fri 05 Apr 2024
Franz-Michael Mellbin: Afghans were not good allies

Franz-Michael Mellbin: Afghans were not good allies

Ambassador Franz-Michael Mellbin is a former EU Special Representative and Danish ambassador in Afghanistan. He played a central role in the implementation of the Danish and EU efforts in Afghanistan…

01:23:58  |   Sat 23 Mar 2024
Andrew Quilty: August in Kabul

Andrew Quilty: August in Kabul

Andrew Quilty is a multi-award-winning Australian photojournalist and the author of "August in Kabul". He lived and worked in Afghanistan for almost a decade, capturing and covering the country's sto…

01:14:56  |   Sat 16 Mar 2024
Pashtana Durrani: Afghanistan is not accepting its daughters

Pashtana Durrani: Afghanistan is not accepting its daughters

Born in a refugee camp in Pakistan, Pashtana Durrani is an Afghan human rights activist and the founder of LEARN Afghanistan, an NGO through which she runs undercover schools across the country. In t…

01:10:46  |   Sat 09 Mar 2024
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