2021 in review: Taliban’s takeover gutted science in Afghanistan

Academics in Afghanistan were thriving before the shock takeover by the Taliban this year, which saw many researchers leave the country and universities closed

Humans 24 December 2021

By Jason Arunn Murugesu

Taliban fighter standing guard over meeting

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. Public universities have been shut. Some private universities remain open but classes are now segregated by gender.

“I was already afraid that I was on a list,” says Hammad*, an academic who fled Afghanistan earlier this year just before the US …

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