Saad Mohseni

Saad Mohseni (born April 23, 1966 in London, United Kingdom) is an Afghan Media tycoon and entrepreneur in the show business. He is the chairman of MOBY Group, which is one of Afghanistan's largest media companies that owns Tolo TV, Tolo News, Lemar TV, Farsi1 and Arman FM. Prior to establishing Moby Group, he was a banker, headed the equities and corporate finance division of an Australian investment banking firm.

Early years and background

Mohseni was born on 23 April 1966 in London, United Kingdom, where his father, Yassin Mohseni, was assigned as an Afghan diplomat. At the age of three, he and the family returned to Afghanistan. His mother Safia was employed by the United Nations at the time. After the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Mohseni and his family fled to Australia in 1982.^[1] He has two younger brothers, Zaid and Jahid Mohseni, and younger sister Wajma. He is fluent in Dari (Persian) and English.

Returning to Post Taliban Afghanistan

After the removal of the Taliban government in late 2001, Mohseni and his brothers returned to Afghanistan to get involved in the media business by establishing a small media company called Moby Capital. "I always liked the media, because you can really influence people, particularly younger people," Mohseni believes.^[1]

References

External links

• Al Jazeera English: Afghanistan's first 24/7 TV channel (08 July 2010)
• Rachel Maddow: Media as another Front - Saad Mohseni (07 July 2010)
• Reuters: Afghanistan gets first 24-hour news TV (06 July 2010)
• Morning Joe (Ken Auletta discussing the Moby Group) (29 June 2010)
• The New Yorker Profile: Saad Mohseni, Afghanistan's first media mogul (29 June 2010)
• Rachel Maddow Show "Saad Mohseni on MSNBCs Rachel Maddow" (18 March 2010)
• On The Media "Saad Mohseni on NPR's On the Media" (5 March 2010)”
• MSNBC “ Saad Mohseni on MSNBC’s Morning Joe” (16 June 2009)
• The Daily Show “ Saad Mohseni speaks to Jon Stewart on the Daily Show” (10 June 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)
• Washington Post “David Ignatius: What Afghans Want” (December 2008)
• Washington Post “Reaching his Prime Time in Afghanistan” (September 2007)
• New York Times “Amid War, Passion for TV Chefs, Soaps and Idols” (August 2007)
• Time Magazine “Capitalism Comes to Afghanistan” (December 2006)
• Fortune “ Cobbling a Media Empire in Kabul” (January 2006)