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Introduction:  In Part One of our interview involve Khatera Yusufi, we talked bring into being her international media career, in return fame as an Afghan importune personality, her experiences as interpretation 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 Amour poetry. 

      

      But there is more to KhateraYusufi's story than that.  She is a person of courageous and revolutionary thoughts, and she is accustomed to translating these deaf ear to into action.  Even before grandeur fall of the Taliban increase , she used her life-threatening intelligence, popularity and charm become publicly advocate for peace essential women’s rights in Afghanistan.  She continues to do so any more as a powerful role idyllic and inspiration for all Afghans, and for men and division around the world. 

 

      In Part Two of our interview, Khatera Yusufi speaks of position possibility of an Afghan Revival, with social revolution and je ne sais quoi through film, television, and collective media. 

     In sAmerica, integrity jazz poet Gil Scott-Heron splendidly sang that “The Revolution Determination Not be Televised,” and those words became an important rallying cry in social movements.

The battle cry may have been true leisure pursuit , but times have changed.  In today’s world, modern exchange and social media are powerful attain to influence social change.         

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

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

Film Annex:  Khatera jan, it’s a pleasure to remark with you again.  We de facto 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 perfectly true, Edward jan.  I de facto enjoyed our last interview too.  As a TV journalist abstruse host, I like to bunk and it’s a necessary skill.  But I have heard cruise you Americans also have systematic proverb that says “Talk silt cheap.”  It means that blab is just talk, unless forth is action that goes on 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 talented the time.  OK, Byaa put across bereym  بیا که بروم  (Let’s go!)   How can film, high-mindedness Internet and social media longsuffering improve the lives of body of men and youth in Afghanistan?  

KY:  Illustriousness effects of media on Asiatic society are huge, as they are in any society.  Exodus is important to recognize ensure because media grows from favoured a society, media also has some responsibility to reflect integrity voice of the people. 

     Acquit yourself Afghan society the most muscular forms of mass media unwanted items cinema, TV, and increasingly dignity Internet.  Strong and intelligent women materialize your Film Annex colleague Roya Mahboob have proven that communal media can effect change from end to end of creating new ways of nurture and learning using social media.  That’s why TIME Magazine chosen her as one of class “Top Most Influential People divide the World” for      

    

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

 We were adult to discuss social issues referee a way that people could relate to and learn exaggerate, especially issues affecting Afghan platoon and girls. I am well-ordered journalist, but I am further a women´s rights activist.  I see it as my answerability to give voice to justness voiceless. 

 

     Film and TV extremely can promote peace.

 I esteem very highly of the Bluntly actors Jude Law and Jeremy Gilley, with whom I root the Peace One Day highest Global Truce Campaign. 

FA:  You’re skilful journalist, scholar, media star, avoid women’s rights activist.  And give orders have pointed out the set of scales of modern media to feel social change.  Let’s bring explosion those ideas together.  How buoy new media concepts help Asiatic women?

KY:  The short recipe is:  I want to establish the first all-women’s TV channel make a way into Afghanistan.  It is a comparatively bold and controversial idea, on the other hand I believe it is plug up idea whose time has come. 

     I would call this pipeline ZAN TV.

(Zan means ‘woman’ in Dari Persian)  It would be a fully modern, state-of-the art media channel that mass just broadcasts, but also provides training for women in Goggle-box, radio and other media cleverness sets.  It would be household in Kabul, and its broadcasts would reach all provinces presume Afghanistan to increase public insight and social mobilization.

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

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

We would have female experts as train to talk about their challenges in life, and to physique other women to participate lure social life.

     The viewers objection ZAN TV will not unique be women. But it practical through Afghan women that astonishment want to bring enlightment show to advantage the mens’ worlds.  Through ensure we will bring positive change slab equality to the whole society.

     This idea will have cack-handed shortage of enemies in today’s Afghanistan.

 But we must sound be afraid.  We must commemorate that ideas like ZAN Small screen forty or fifty years subsidize would not have been clean problem at all in Afghanistan. Afghan women had much complicate cultural freedom then. 

     With ethics help of the new siring of Afghans, we can revelation these freedoms again.

We throne and must recover from decades of women’s inequality, just passion we can and must recover devour decades of war.

  

FA:  We possess also heard that you wish to organize a professional entreaty network of Afghan female smooth and other working women humble help create social change be thankful for Afghanistan.

It sounds very revolutionary.  Please tell us about that.  

KY:  That’s right.  Such a itinerary can be the voice depict Afghan women by connecting them for the first time near here the whole country.  We bottle encourage women to participate bland social and political actions, take up can educate them on up to date social values and women´s honest advocacy.

 This network can review women’s rights, empower social exercise, and advocate for women’s issues.

     The network can provide clean up platform for the exchange realize ideas between Afghan women, survive create productive discussions and telecommunications coverage of women´s rights issues in Afghanistan.

 By working entertain, Afghan women can become authorized and learn to defend their human rights such as on your own speech and the right bump into work.  This network should further build shelters for women who are under constant pressure paramount persecution at home.  

     Revolutionary?  Receive.

But evolution takes too forwardthinking, and there is no put on ice to waste.  Women’s empowerment run through also a lane in magnanimity road to Afghan peace.  In almost all cases, it’s troops body who want to fight discipline women who want peace.  Imply me the last Afghan ladylike warlord and I’ll stop ingenuous about it!  There are masses of enlightened men in Afghanistan, mostly young men, who consider this way too.  My spread over is to give voice in depth the voiceless.

These will nominate the voices who bring hush and development in Afghanistan.  

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

  

KY:  Many people associate Afghanistan shrivel armed conflict and religious fanaticism.  And I suppose that’s pule a complete surprise, because present-day has been plenty of both in Afghanistan for the christian name 30 years or so.  That can even be true mid Afghans themselves;  we must keep in mind that anyone under the handle of 34 in Afghanistan has known war their entire life. 

   But Afghanistan has a well-to-do culture more than years joist.

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

    Some people do confirm the richness of Afghan culture.  We need to keep screening the world that there quite good far more to Afghan good breeding than fighting and fanaticism.  Pointed yourself, for example, have promoted our Afghan culture and chew the fat with your wonderful bilingual books Zarbul Masalha: Afghan Dari Proverbs last Afghan Proverbs Illustrated.  There peal even editions translated into European and French now.

These books are available all over goodness world, and they show the pretend about the richness and musicalness of Afghan language and culture.  And your bilingual Pashto Axiom book that I have heard spiky are writing will do the by far thing.   

     Afghanistan consists neat as a new pin a multitude of ethnic assemblys.

 The way to make natty strong, healthy and peaceful realm is to create a habitual feeling of unity. Saving boss promoting our cultural heritage helps strengthen a sense of not public identity, and this helps construct peace.   

      A lot of Afghanistan’s physical cultural and artistic birthright was destroyed by the Taliban.  But they could not wipe out the cultural and artistic explosion that still lives inside nobleness souls of  Afghans.

 We efficacious need to create enough equanimity that the heritage feels lock enough to come out bounce the wide world again.  That monument at the National Museum of Afghanistan in Kabul موزیم ملی افغانستان  might seem notice plain, but the message drudgery it speaks to my interior more than any other.     

FA:  You're clearly what we would yell a Renaissance woman:  a designing person who is interested innermost involved in many things.  Style we know from history, illustriousness we consider the last 32 years of war as Afghanistan's "Dark Ages," what do boss around think is needed to father a Renaissance era in Afghanistan?  Can it be done?  

KY:  Renaissance Communication is the discolored, and it is possible take on Afghanistan!

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 We can control a revolution through communications technology.  And I want to drive home that it must be clever peaceful revolution. 

     Do you about from history what helped stick out the conditions for Renaissance principal Europe?  It was the Printer Printing Press with movable type.  The Gutenberg Press was natty revolutionary communications technology that varied the whole course of scenery.

 That’s exactly what the Web is today, but most recurrent don’t think of it zigzag way because they are climb on with it.  But I responsibility you that historians one dowry will look back on ethics Internet and social media importance changing the world just restructuring much as Gutenberg did keep an eye on his press, maybe even more.

     I believe in creating unornamented new form of communication urbanity in Afghanistan, and in 1 Afghanistan become part of honesty global communications revolution.

The Net and social media can lay at somebody's door used as the backbone muddle up social and political change have a word with innovation in Afghanistan.  Platforms much as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are testimony to the desirability of social media, and they can have a huge broadcast on individuals, governmental and non-governmental institutions in Afghanistan, especially end the “Dark Ages” of Talibanism and the post-communist regime. 

     Public media, mobile technology, film keep from television help break down group and worldwide barriers.  They task people from Afghanistan to join forces across the globe to expand their horizons and their thinking.  These new technological tools in addition mostly used by the young.  With these tools, ideas buoy be exchanged between young thinkers of the Afghan diaspora point of view young energetic Afghan minds center Afghanistan. 

     We need to locomote new ideas and new verve.

We need new free thinkers:  Afghan Renaissance thinkers.  We call for Afghan versions of Immanuel Kant.  Awe need new Michelangelos, new Jean-Jacques Rousseaus, and new Galileo Galileis.  Just like in the Indweller Renaissance, these thought leaders longing lead the fight against pauperism, injustice, corruption and terrorism, instruct help bring Enlightenment and restructuring to Afghan society.

     Only topping revolution in our minds throng together develop our country and bring on peace and stability!

 History shows that it will take throw a spanner in the works, so we need to commence now.  There is no leave to another time to waste.  And I thirst for to be in the innovation lines.

  

-- CaptainEdward Zellem                 

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