Lost In America

Shafic Gawhari is the managing director of Moby Media Afghanistan, a company that owns Afghanistan's #1 TV network TOLO TV. He joins us from his home in Kabul, Afghanistan to tell us how he is putting his TV network back together in a Taliban-controlled country, and what daily life is like in Kabul six months after the US exit. Shafic proudly tells us how TOLO TV transformed the culture of Afghanistan when it came on the air in 2004 by showing comedy, drama, singing and more to a country where it was previously illegal to own a tv or even take a picture. In this fascinating conversation he tells us how he had to meet with/ deal with the Taliban in order to keep his TV station on the air. For regular updates on Afghanistan follow Shafic on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ShaficGawhariLost In America is hosted by us AKA Turner Sparks and Michael Ira Kaplan.Get Tickets to Turner's Live Album Recording on March 11, 2022 at the Friars Club in New York City Here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/turner-sparks-live