Moheb Mudessir

Department Law, Governance and International Relations
Subject BA International Relations and Law
Graduation year 2008
UG Course: International Relations BA

“I began my University studies at Kabul university studying Law and Political Science.
After the trouble began in Afghanistan, I came to London and am now Studying International Relations and Law at Undergraduate level and my course is due to finish in the Summer of 2008.

I graduated from high school level with grades equivalent to 'A' grade at A level from Afghanistan-Turkey High School in Mazar-e-sharif in north Afghanistan in 2000.

I really enjoy studying International Relations as the modules go into depth about world politics which I am interested in. At the end of my studies, I want to be in a good position to help my country in solving the problems we have. I want to learn how to handle the problems Afghanistan is facing and understand better how to introduce effective and fair law enforcement, protect human rights and implement reforms to the legal system. Living and studying in the UK, I'm able to learn things that I hope to implement in Afghanistan in the future.

On top of studying, I also work full-time as a Producer with the BBC World Service. I have also done some voluntary work when I worked for the United Nations for a year in Afghanistan. My role was based around serving in districts and villages in north Afghanistan in an anti narcotics programme.

In London, I am also working with the National Geographic Society, in helping to create a gallery division of the Islamic world, and I'm helping to include Afghanistan in this project.

I want to finish my UG degree and then go onto my Masters. After this, I hope to go home and work with other like minded people to help to solve the problems there. I also want to work with Kabul University in introducing an International Relations course there, as this currently doesn't exist, and I look forward to working with the Academics and Scholars to make this happen and share my knowledge and expertise gained at London Met.

I try my best to get good marks and I'm pleased that I've passed all my exams. I'm also in frequent touch with scholars and professors and constantly learning from them. I'm trying to write and publish some of the essays I've written at University. I've written a piece on 'Globalisation' which was published in a quarterly magazine in Afghanistan in 2005 in Persian, and I'm hoping to have this translated soon for publication further afield.

I'd like to thank London Met, Mark Bickerton and his department for the scholarship opportunity I was awarded and I'm very grateful for having had the chance to study here. The main thing about studying at London Met is the huge variety of international people you meet in the classes, the wide range of cultures you learn about from all around the world and the knowledge shared by the students studying at London Met and the Professors. Many students on my course are active and working on projects such as the UN project and I enjoy these learning experiences and the one-to-one teaching and learning opportunities, as well. I fully intend to give something back to my country when I graduate and help other students to learn how to do the same. I hope to help the socio-economic conditions improve in Afghanistan, as well as helping to introduce necessary reforms.”