Najibullah quraishi biography

Najibullah Quraishi

Najibullah Quraishi is an Afghan-British Journalist.

His professional career began in Afghanistan, where he worked as producer, reporter and presenter for a weekly television social program “Shahr-e ma, Khana-e ma (Our City, Our Home) for 10 years before moving to the UK in 2002.

After successfully collaborating on the film ‘Afghan Massacre: Convoy of Death’, in the same year he won The Rory Peck Impact and Sony International Award for a film about the SAS in Afghanistan.

Since moving to UK, where he works as freelancer director, reporter and cameraman as well as chief investigator for documentary films in Asia and Arab countries, he has produced a total of six films and won several awards including;
Over Sea Press Club Award, 2016 (Best documentary) The Emmy award 2013 (News and Documentary); the Alfred I DuPont Award 2011 (the ‘broadcast Pulitzer’, presented by the Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University); the History Makers Award 2011 for ‘Best Current Affairs Documentary’; One World Media Award &ls

“I Might Die There”: Journalist Najibullah Quraishi on Going Face-to-Face with ISIS and the Taliban in Afghanistan

For Najibullah Quraishi, covering the war in Afghanistan is personal.

The journalist grew up in Northern Afghanistan — and though he’s now based in London, he has been chronicling the U.S.-led war in his home country since it began nearly two decades ago in a post-9/11 bid to kill Osama bin Laden, destroy al-Qaeda and oust its ruling ally, the Taliban.

More than 18 years and tens of thousands of civilian deaths later, Quraishi’s latest on-the-ground report from inside Afghanistan paints a dire picture: As President Donald Trump says he wants to end the war and potential negotiations unfold with a resurgent Taliban, ISIS fighters are waiting for what they see as their moment — a peace deal that the group says will drive dissatisfied Taliban fighters into its ranks.

“This is a war where right now, the Taliban thinks they will be the winner. The U.S. president thinks he will be the winner. But as for the people of Afghanistan,” Quraishi says, “nobody will be the winn

Najibullah Quraishi is an Afghan-British Journalist. His professional career began in Afghanistan, where he worked as producer, reporter and presenter for a weekly television social program “Shahr-e ma, Khana-e ma (Our City, Our Home) for 10 years before moving to the UK in 2002.

After successfully collaborating on the film ‘Afghan Massacre: Convoy of Death’, in the same year he won The Rory Peck Impact and Sony International Award for a film about the SAS in Afghanistan.

Since moving to UK, where he works as freelancer director, reporter and cameraman as well as chief investigator for documentary films in Asia and Arab countries, he has produced a total of six films and won several awards including;
Over Sea Press Club Award, 2016 (Best documentary) The Emmy award 2013 (News and Documentary); the Alfred I DuPont Award 2011 (the ‘broadcast Pulitzer’, presented by the Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University); the History Makers Award 2011 for ‘Best Current Affairs Documentary’; One World Media Award ‘Best Documentary’ 2010; BAFTA nomination ‘Best Documentary’ 2010; AI

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