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{{short description|Afghan journalist and filmmaker}}
[[File:Najibullah_Quraishi_(cropped).jpg|thumb|Najibullah Quraishi in 2016]]
'''Najibullah Quraishi''' is an Afghan journalist and [[filmmaker]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/articles/afghanistan-behind-enemy-lines-reporter-feature |title=Afghanistan Behind Enemy Lines: Reporter Feature |date=1 February 2010 |work=[[Dispatches (TV programme)|Dispatches]] |publisher=[[Channel 4]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100206062058/http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/articles/afghanistan-behind-enemy-lines-reporter-feature |archive-date=2010-02-06 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2010/s2824501.htm|title=Four Corners|work=abc.net.au|date=22 February 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2010/feb/02/behind-enemy-lines-tower-block-of-commons|title=Behind Enemy Lines and Tower Block of Commons|author=Nancy Banks-Smith|work=the Guardian|date=2 February 2010 }}</ref>
Quraishi worked as a journalist and presenter on radio and television in [[Afghanistan]] for ten years and has a degree in journalism. Quraishi is Clover Films chief investigator for projects in Asia and the Arab states. He has worked with [[Jamie Doran]] in making ''[[Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death]]'', ''Afghanistan: Behind Enemy Lines'', and ''[[The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan]]''. Since 2002 he has lived in the [[United Kingdom]] and he is a winner of the [[Rory Peck Award]], the Sony International Impact award and [[Amnesty International Media Awards|Amnesty International Media Award]] for his work.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.clover-films.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=18&Itemid=6|title=Company|author=Administrator|work=clover-films.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rorypecktrust.org/page/3194/Najibullah+Quraishi+-+Winner+ |title=Najibullah Quraishi - Winner {{!}} The Rory Peck Trust |website=www.rorypecktrust.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101128100247/http://www.rorypecktrust.org/page/3194/Najibullah+Quraishi+-+Winner+ |archive-date=2010-11-28}}
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 ten years before moving to the United Kingdom and joining the Clover Films 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 [[Special Air Service|SAS]] in Afghanistan.
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