02 October 1973 —
Professor of Journalism · Researcher · Writer
Mohammad Dawod Nabeel was born in Parwan, Afghanistan, on the second of October 1973. A professor, journalist, writer, and former political officer, he has spent the better part of three decades working at the intersection of journalism, media policy, and pedagogy — first in Kabul newsrooms, then in government communications, and ultimately at the university.
He completed his higher education in Kabul, taking a Bachelor's in Journalism from Kabul University and a Master's in Political Science from Payame Noor University. In 2013 he founded the Faculty of Journalism at Al-Beroni University in Kapisa — the first of its kind at the institution — and served as its Dean from 2014 to 2020 while continuing as Professor of Journalism until 2021.
He introduced the study of media literacy to Afghanistan, conducting the country's first sustained research on the subject and authoring the textbook *Media Literacy in Afghanistan*, which remains in active use at Al-Beroni. His scholarship — on media policy, organizational communication, and the conditions for an independent press — has been published in national and international journals. He now lives in France and is reading for a second Master's at EJCAM, Aix-Marseille Université.
The first sustained inquiry into media literacy in Afghanistan — its absence from public education, its policy implications, and the curricular interventions required to address it. The work became a textbook and entered the curriculum at Al-Beroni.
— A free press without literate readers is a one-sided conversation.
Research on the legal and institutional architecture of Afghan media: how policy was written, enforced, evaded, and rewritten between the Interim Administration and the National Unity Government — and what the recent rupture reveals about the fragility of those structures.
— Policy is not what is written. It is what survives translation into practice.
Field studies of organizational communication inside Afghan government agencies after 2001 — including journalists' access to information, the strengths and weaknesses of the Ministry of Information and Culture, and the slow accretion of bureaucratic habit that follows regime change.
— The classroom is the first newsroom, and its standards travel.
Reporting, sourcing, verification. The trade as a discipline.
What audiences need to know in order to read the press at all.
From Lasswell to the platform era; how messages travel and decay.
Regulatory frameworks, free-expression doctrine, and the Afghan case.
How institutions speak — and how reporters listen for what they do not say.
Long-form practicum. One story, taken seriously, over a semester.
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