Awn Hussain Al Khashlok
Awn Hussain Al Khashlok (; February 3, 1961) is an Iraqi businessman and media person. He is the founder of the Al-Khashlok Group for Investment and Al-Baghdadia Media Group.
Early life and education
Dr. Awn Hussein Al-Khashlok was born in Qalat Sukkar town in the Dhi Qar Governorate, Iraq. He is the third son of Hajj Hussein al-Khashlok, a well-known merchant in the southern region of Iraq during the first half of the 20th century through his trade in grain and dates in Basra and Nasiriyah and exporting goods to Arab States of the Persian Gulf and other countries. He belongs to Banu ‘Omer which is part of Rabi`ah tribes. Awn left Iraq early when his father sent him to study abroad after he finished his high school in 1979.
Living abroad
Awn lived abroad since then and never returned to his country until after the war of 2003 for studying. During these years he settled in Greece after obtaining BSc, Masters then PhD in civil engineering. His work was divided between trade, construction, real estate and manufacturing. He founded Al-Khashlok Group for Investment which is operating in Europe, USA, UK, Africa, UAE, Turkey and other countries.
Al-Baghdadia
After forming many charitable organizations in Iraq and abroad that helped impoverished families and treating patients, especially children, during the long years of embargo that affected the Iraqi people greatly. He looked for creating a large media entity after 2003 to make it a model of the free media in monitoring and characterizing the new democratic process in Iraq for the benefit of the Iraqi people and protecting it from leaning into dangerous aims such as helping the foreign occupation, giving a chance for dictatorship, sectarianism and corruptness in taking over the new state that was still being built. Thus he founded Al-Baghdadia TV satellite channel in 2005 that was transformed into a media group to absorb the evolution that is seeing and will see in future.
He also supervised on constructing the channel’s statement and editorial policies by himself personally through his daily guidance to produce the channel’s political programs and shows which made the channel as a model for the honest media that adopts Iraqis’ needs, ambitions, questions and showing the truth for them, to make it an independent force away from any political party, financial support, political ambition or personal ambition. In addition to that, Awn worked very hard to make the Iraqi media as modern and evolutionary as the international media which represents the basis of the Al-Baghdadia Media Group project that he founded in 2005.
Vision
Dr. Awn’s vision can be summarized in that the economic development, construction, and social prosperity are the only indicator to the political success. And a country that enjoys freedom, real democracy, stabilized political system, respecting human rights and modern systems of social care, health and education shall never be threatened by its enemies or [...].