A Taliban meeting on higher education policies in Kabul, Afghanistan, on 29 August 2021 AAMIR QURESHI/AFP via Getty Images
The Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan this year led to a radical makeover of the country, and science was no exception. Since the fall of the Afghan government, scores of academics have fled the country. .
“I was already afraid that I was on a list,” says Hammad*, an academic who fled Afghanistan earlier this year just before the US withdrew its troops. “I…
