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Eagle Four interview she stated "a lot of the shows I worked on, the drama serials, they were actually funded by external clients and used as a way to convey positive messaging to the Afghan audiences. So we'd have in our shows messaging around women's rights, the importance of education, particularly for young girls, health issues, the dangers of insurgency in the community, and of course the shows had to be entertaining, otherwise no-one would watch them, but my writing team became very adept at weaving these messaging ideas into the storylines." Eagle Four Eagle Four (Oqaab Chaar) is an Afghan 13