Now on RAH TV Restart · Episode 02 — premieres this Friday

A shared vision
for the future.

RAH TV is a digital television and podcast network built for the global Afghan and Dari-speaking diaspora — long-form interviews, documentary storytelling, and live programming, translated by AI into English and German so every story reaches further than its first language.

Languages
Dari · EN · DE
Programs
1 live · 3 in dev
Pilot
Aghaz-e Dobara
Founded
Hamburg · 2025
In Dari, RAH means path.
We are building one — for stories that
would otherwise go unheard.
تو پای در راه نِه و هیچ مپرس،
خود راه بگویدت که چون باید رفت. — Rumi · Set foot on the path; the path itself will show the way.
The Network

Old media, new media,
one mission.

RAH TV is a hybrid of broadcast television, podcast culture, and AI-native publishing — purpose-built for a diaspora of 6 million Dari-speaking Afghans living between worlds.

01

Television-grade production

Studio-shot long-form interviews, documentary-style storytelling, multi-camera coverage, and a weekly release rhythm modeled on the broadcasters we grew up watching.

02

Podcast-native distribution

Every episode lives on YouTube, every conversation lives wherever people listen — Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and the social platforms our community already calls home.

03

AI-translated, globally legible

Conversations recorded in Dari are translated into English and German with AI, opening every story to integration partners, institutions, and audiences far beyond the Persian-speaking world.

04

Human dignity first

No crisis framing. No spectacle. Every guest is treated as a person with agency, contribution, and a future — not as a statistic in someone else's debate.

Programs

The Network.

Five flagship shows. One shared editorial spine: real people, real journeys, real consequences. Each program is built for both broadcast and feed.

The AI Newsroom

A studio
that scales itself.

RAH TV's production stack treats AI as part of the editorial team — not a gimmick. From transcription to translation to clip discovery, every interview becomes ten pieces of content in three languages, without diluting the work.

— 01

Translated, not just subtitled.

Every Dari episode is rendered into English and German with editorial review — built for European integration partners, institutions, and the second-generation diaspora that no longer speaks the mother tongue fluently.

— 02

One shoot, ten formats.

From a single 60–90 minute interview we ship the long-form YouTube cut, 3–8 highlight reels, Shorts, TikTok edits, quote cards, and a podcast feed — designed once, distributed everywhere.

— 03

Discoverable on every algorithm.

SEO-aware titles in Dari and English, machine-curated highlight moments, and multilingual metadata mean RAH TV programming surfaces wherever the diaspora is already scrolling.

Source · Dari
چطور می‌توان دوباره آغاز کرد، وقتی همه چیز عوض شده است؟
Translation · English
How do you begin again, when everything has changed?
Translation · German
Wie beginnt man neu, wenn sich alles verändert hat?
Flagship · Pilot

How do you
begin again?

Aghaz-e Dobara — Restart — is RAH TV's flagship interview series. For millions of Afghans displaced by war, politics, or circumstance, this is not an abstract question. It is daily life.

“Each episode is a deep, one-on-one conversation with a guest whose life story carries lessons of survival, adaptation, and transformation. Specific enough to be credible. Human enough to reach anyone who has ever faced a new beginning.”
Format
45–90 min interview
Frequency
Weekly · 4 / month
Languages
Dari → EN · DE
Distribution
YouTube + Socials
Migration & Departure Restart & Reinvention Integration & Belonging Cultural Identity Hope & the Future
Why RAH TV exists

A media gap, told from the inside.

The Dari-speaking Afghan diaspora is one of the largest and fastest-growing in Europe — and one of the least represented in long-form media. RAH TV is a direct response.

Beyond crisis headlines.

Mainstream coverage frames Afghans through emergency. RAH TV centers human dignity, agency, and contribution — the rest of the story, told by the people living it.

Built for the diaspora.

Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, Austria, the UK — and Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan. One language network linking a community spread across continents.

Editorially independent.

Not aligned with any party, government, or movement. RAH TV simply tells real stories — the most credible answer to fear and misinformation.

Long-form, on purpose.

Algorithms reward fragments. We make 60–90 minute conversations because the truth rarely lives in 30 seconds — and we cut the moments that do, downstream.

Voices, not symbols.

Entrepreneurs, artists, doctors, mothers, asylum seekers, students, athletes. Every guest is treated as the author of their own story, not a stand-in for a community.

A cultural archive.

Each episode is a permanent record of a life lived between worlds. RAH TV is being built to outlast any news cycle and to be referenced for a generation.

6M+
Dari speakers in the global diaspora
30
Restart episodes in the first season
3
Languages, AI-translated per episode
4
Programs across the network slate
Alisina Ayobi
Founder & CEO · RAH TV
From the founder

A network
built from the path.

I grew up in a country whose stories were told mostly by people who had never lived them. RAH TV is the network I wanted to exist — one that hands the microphone back to the people whose lives the headlines describe.

We are building a hybrid: the editorial discipline of broadcast television, the intimacy of long-form podcasting, and the reach of AI-translated distribution. The result is a media platform that can carry a single voice from a living room in Berlin to a kitchen in Kabul to a German integration office — without losing what makes it human.

If you are a guest, a sponsor, an institution, or a viewer: thank you for being part of this. The path is what we build by walking it.

— Alisina
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Partner with RAH TV.

We're actively working with guests, brands, NGOs, foundations, and cultural institutions who share our commitment to authentic storytelling and community representation.

Watch & Listen

Find us where you already are.

RAH TV publishes long-form on YouTube, conversations on every major podcast app, and short-form on the social platforms our community already lives on.