Daud Junbish

Daud Junbish
Nationality Afghan
Occupation
  • Journalist
Years active 1994 –
Known for Mullah Omar interviews
Notable work Open Jirga

Daud Junbish is a BBC journalist.[1][2][3] He is one of the few journalists in the world who has met former Taliban chief Mullah Omar, and has interviewed him on multiple occasions.[4] He is the author of What Is Really Happening in Afghanistan?, 24 Hours That Turned Afghanistan Around, and Red Army in Afghanistan.[3]

Life and career

Junbish completed his PhD from Moscow State University in the area of journalism.[5]

Junbish joined BBC Moscow in 1994 as a reporter. He subsequently became a senior editor with BBC Radio for their Afghanistan service.[6] Currently, he works with BBC's Afghanistan service as a producer.[5]

One of Junbish's most notable meetings was in 1996, when he met the then Taliban head, Mullah Omar. Over the next few years, Junbish interviewed Omar multiple times for BBC.[4] In August 2015, the BBC program The Fifth Floor interviewed Junbish in a special feature, covering the range of interviews Junbish had held with Omar.[4]

Over his career with BBC, Junbish has written a number of books on Afghanistan, including What Is Really Happening in Afghanistan?, 24 Hours That Turned Afghanistan Around, and Red Army in Afghanistan.[3] He has also written two textbooks for Kabul University's journalism faculty.[5]

Open Jirga

Junbish is the presenter for the BBC program Open Jirga,[5] a show featuring a panel discussion amongst notable personalities combined with audience questions.[7] The show is funded by the UK government's Department for International Development[8] and is jointly produced by the Afghan service of BBC, BBC Media Action, and Radio Television Afghanistan.[7] Junbish, who launched the show in 2012 as a weekly series,[9] has invited and featured prominent personalities like Sulaiman Layeq and Mohammad Mohaqiq in the discussion panels.[7]

The issues taken up by Junbish in various episodes have been praised by various international media.[10][11] BBC described the third edition of the show, hosted by Junbish, as including a "ground-breaking exchange".[7] The Junbish-hosted series became so successful that Hamid Karzai, then the President of Afghanistan, sought an invitation to the show (Karzai was subsequently invited and appeared therein).[9] Junbish's show is credited with influencing government and civil society action on various national and regional issues.[9] Le Monde reported that over 2 to 3 million people were regular viewers of the show, a high figure for a nation with a population of around 30 million.[9]

References

  1. ↑ "Testing times begin for Afghan-style democracy". Global Times. Retrieved 1 October 2016.
  2. ↑ "Afghans Still Dispute Legacy of Former 'Bandit King'". Afghan Online Press. Retrieved 1 October 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 "BBC journalist Daud Junbish's services acclaimed". Pajhwok Afghan News. Retrieved 1 October 2016.
  4. 1 2 3 "BBC World Service – The Fifth Floor, Meeting Mullah Omar". BBC. Retrieved 1 October 2016.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "BBC Media Action – Daud Junbish". BBC. Retrieved 1 October 2016.
  6. ↑ Asia Pacific Media Conference (26–28 November 2014). "Reporting on Conflicts and Disasters: The Media Debates Its Role" (PDF). Hiroshima, Japan: International Committee of Red Cross. Retrieved 1 October 2016.
  7. 1 2 3 4 "BBC Blogs – BBC Media Action – Afghanistan's political parties: the future?". BBC. Retrieved 1 October 2016.
  8. ↑ "BBC Afghanistan's Open Jirga – Media Action". BBC. Retrieved 1 October 2016.
  9. 1 2 3 4 "Des questions, des critiques et des actes". Le Monde. Retrieved 1 October 2016.
  10. ↑ "Afghan TV show brings officials face-to-face with ordinary people". The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 1 October 2016.
  11. ↑ "En Afghanistan, la télévision affronte les problèmes de société". Le Monde. Retrieved 1 October 2016.
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