Bay Area universities scramble to bring at-risk Afghan scholars to America

by Leslie Katz, Bay City News January 19, 2022January 24, 2022

Halima Kazem-Stojanovic, a journalist and San Jose State University instructor who helped establish the Afghan Scholars at Risk program, interviews a man on the streets of Kabul in 2019. She says the mission to bring scholars to America is urgent because their lives are at risk under the rule of the Taliban. (Photo courtesy of Halima Kazem-Stojanovic)

A San Jose State University lecturer is cautiously optimistic about a program she was instrumental in starting after the fall of Kabul that will bring Afghan scholars to the U.S.

“We’ve raised close to $400,000 to help evacuate and bring scholars over and have them here at our universities,” said Halima Kazem-Stojanovic, a journalism instructor and member of San Jose State’s Human Rights Institute, which, with the University of California, Berkeley’s Human Rights Center, established Afghan Scholars at Risk.

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