"This book recounts the founding and growth of the Moby Group—an Afghan media company that owns Tolo, Tolo News, Lemar, Arman FM, and Arakozia, among others. As both an intimate personal journey and an exploration of the Moby Group and the Afghan media landscape, Mohseni’s memoir delves into the ... struggles and triumphs of establishing a media presence amidst war. It provides an insider view of Afghan politics, culture, and society, making it a valuable resource for scholars, journalists, policymakers, and readers interested in media and Afghanistan. The book is divided into four sections that examine the development, growth, and subsequent challenges of Afghanistan’s independent media landscape from the authors’ perspective. The first section describes the company’s founding and early expansion, including the return to post-Taliban Kabul, the development of independent media infrastructure, the launch of pioneering outlets such as Arman FM, and the broader social and urban context in which these efforts occurred. The second section discusses a period of growth and experimentation, placing the rise of TOLO TV and related cultural productions within changing political conditions and ongoing structural limitations. The penultimate section centers on the challenges faced by journalism and media production during escalating conflict, looking at newsroom practices, personal relationships, political power struggles, and the risks of wartime reporting. The final section highlights the human and cultural impacts of decades of upheaval, focusing on trauma, storytelling, gender, and artistic expression, and concludes with an account of Kabul’s fall and its impact on Afghan media and society." (Hazrat Bahar in: Global Media Journal, German Edition, vol. 15:2, 2025) more

"The hard-hitting autobiography of the renowned, high profile TV investigator. In twenty-five years of investigative reporting Roger Cook has been knocked unconscious a dozen times, hospitalized on almost thirty occasions, and has had twenty-three bones broken by those who have resented his ruthless ... persistence – or just objected to the fact that he exists at all. He was born 6 April 1943 in New Zealand. His father – a timid man afraid of attack from Japanese submarines rumoured to have been sighted in Auckland harbour – soon found refuge and a new start for his family in Sydney, Australia. If anything was going to prepare Roger Cook for what he was to become, it was growing up in the Australia of the 1950s – a melting-pot of different nationalities, scarred by the war, and with an unsophisticated and sometimes brutal education system. After school and college he found his broadcasting feet at a Sydney commercial radion station, moving on to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He then emigrated to Britain to tackle BBC radio, where he prospered at ‘The World At One’. His brainchild, however, was ‘Checkpoint’, which became the most popular programme on Radio 4 after ‘Today’. During its twelve-year run, Cook and his team exposed a breadth of institutional incompetencies, bad law, injustices and naked criminality. The result was a series of awards for good journalism, significant changes in legislation, and the arrest and conviction of countless fraudsters and strong-arm villains. For his pains, Cook earned the sobriquet of ‘The Most Beaten-up Journalist in Britain’. Eventually he transferred the idea to television, where for twelve years ‘The Cook Report’ flourished. Organised crime, drug-smuggling, pornography, animal cruelty, the IRA. Cook has attacked them all in search of justice – and won. Published to coinincide with ‘Cook Report’ TV specials in June, August, October and December, Dangerous Ground is his breathtaking story." (Abstract) more