We, the undersigned international community of scholars, express our condemnation of the recent attacks targeting students and faculty in Afghanistan. These brutal attacks are part of a series of violent assaults against the innocent civilians of Afghanistan who are the primary victims of a protracted war. 

On Monday November 2, three militants stormed inside Kabul University and fired indiscriminately at students and faculty. The attack lasted 6 hours, killing at least 35 people and wounding 50 more. Kabul University is Afghanistan’s preeminent academic institution, the oldest and largest campus in the country with over 25,000 students. This was the second attack inside an educational institution in just over one week in Kabul. On October 24, a suicide bomber attacked Kawsar-e Danesh, a tutoring center in a predominantly Hazara neighborhood, killing 43 and injuring 57. These two recent attacks represent a direct threat by extremist groups to a generation of students and scholars who are striving for a better future for their country.

As international scholars, we are outraged by the attacks on universities and educational institutions in Afghanistan. We stand in solidarity with the families of the victims and all Afghans who risk their lives to pursue their education in conditions of war, violence and insecurity. Students and educators must be ensured safety and security while attending school, without any threat or fear for their lives and to be able to work, study, and learn in a protected and safe environment. 

We condemn:

Any form of harm to students and faculty by all actors engaged in the war in Afghanistan. 

We demand that the Afghan government, the United States, the European Union, regional countries, international organizations, including the United Nations and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, leverage their influence to:

1. Investigate and prosecute the perpetrators of these indiscriminate and calculated attacks on civilian populations and protected sites, such as universities and educational centres. 
2. Safeguard the rights of students and educators and create concrete measures to protect and reduce the risk of any attacks on all educational institutions in Afghanistan. 
3. Hold all actors engaged in the war in Afghanistan accountable and pressure them to comply with the Geneva Convention and respect civilian lives during war. 
4. Investigate all sources of support for violent extremism in Afghanistan and ensure their cessation. 
5. Rally international concern against threats to civilian life, such as working with media organizations to publicly acknowledge and condemn violent actions that endanger the safety and security of the Afghan people.
6. Work with all stakeholders, such as non-governmental and civil society organizations in Afghanistan, to ensure the continuity of safe education without fear of violence or attack. 
7. Include the right to education and physical safety for students and educators as an urgent measure in the ongoing peace talks in Doha, Qatar. 

 Signatories: 

1. Munazza Ebtikar, PhD Candidate, University of Oxford, UK
2. Dr. Hakeem Naim, Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley, USA
3. Mejgan Massoumi, PhD Candidate, Stanford University, USA
4. Dr. Ali Karimi, Independent Scholar, Montreal, Canada
5. Ali Abdi, PhD Candidate, Yale University, USA
6. Kambaiz Rafi, PhD Candidate, University College London, UK
7. Kaweh Kerami, PhD Candidate, SOAS University of London and Adjunct Lecturer, American University of Afghanistan, Afghanistan
8. Ahmad Azizy, PhD Candidate, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
9. Mohammed Alam Begi, Undergraduate, University of Oxford, UK
10. Dr. Mojtaba Salem, Postdoctoral Scientist, Technical University of Munich, Germany  
11. Maarya Rabbani, Postgraduate Student, St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, UK
12. Elham Gharji, PhD Candidate, University of Coimbra, Portugal
13. Shuhiba Mohammad, PhD Candidate, University of Ottawa, Canada
14. Dr. Annika Schmeding, Postdoctoral Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows, Harvard University, USA
15. Azadah Raz Mohammad, PhD Candidate, University of Melbourne, Australia
16. Marya Hannun, PhD Candidate, Georgetown University, USA
17. Dr. Jawan Shir Rasikh, Historian and Independent Scholar, Afghanistan-Canada
18. Florence Shahabi, PhD Candidate SOAS University of London, UK
19.  Prateek Joshi, DPhil Candidate, University of Oxford, UK
20. Hameed Hakimi, Research Associate at Chatham House (UK) and PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge, UK
21. Dr. Weeda Mehran, Lecturer, University of Exeter, UK
22. Dr. Omar Sharifi, Assistant Professor, American University of Afghanistan, Afghanistan
23. Nadeem Nuristani, Instructor of Public Administration, American University of Afghanistan, Afghanistan
24. Dr.  Victoria Fontan, VPAA and Peace Professor, American University of Afghanistan, Afghanistan
25. Dr. Ashley Jackson, co-director, Centre for the Study of Armed Groups, ODI, UK
26. Lucile Martin, PhD Candidate, Ghent University, Belgium 
27. Étienne von Bertrab, Lecturer (Teaching), University College London, UK
28. Dr. Thomas Barfield, Professor of Anthropology, Boston University, USA
29. Dr. Mohammad Reyaz, Assistant Professor, Aliah University, India
30. Dr. Omar Sadr, Assistant Professor of Political Science, American University of Afghanistan, Afghanistan
31. Fanny Froehlich, PhD Candidate, University College London, UK
32. Dr. Chloé Girardi, Archaeologist, France
33. Daryoush Ashouri, Writer and Researcher, France
34. Dr. Raktim Ray, Lecturer, University College London, UK
35. Alia Aghajanian, Researcher, Institute of Development Studies, UK
36. Dr. Kieran Mitton, Senior Lecturer, King’s College London, UK
37. Dr. Saeed Parto, Director of Research, Afghanistan Public Policy Research Organization, Afghanistan 
38. Eliza Urwin, PhD Candidate, the Graduate Institute Geneva, Switzerland
39. Dr. Nilofar Sakhi, Professorial Lecturer, George Washington University, USA
40. Dr. Ignacia Ossul-Vermehren, Research Fellow, University College London, UK
41. Farkhondeh Akbari, PhD Candidate, The Australian National University, Australia 
42. Dr. Zeynep Tuba Sungur, Independent Scholar, Turkey
43. Rabia Latif Khan, PhD Candidate, SOAS, University of London, UK 
44. Bette Dam, PhD candidate, Vrij Universiteit Brussels, Teacher at Sciences Po, Paris, France
45. Mats Berdal, Professor of Security and Development, King’s College London, UK
46. Barnett R. Rubin, Center on International Cooperation, New York University, USA
47. Tricia Bacon, Associate Professor, American University, Washington, DC, USA
48. Arif Sahar, Researcher at Sheffield Hallam University and PhD Candidate, University College London, UK
49. Prakhar Sharma, PhD Candidate, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, USA
50. Haim Yacobi, Professor of Development Planning, University College London, UK
51. Hanadi Samhan, Urban practitioner and PhD Candidate, University College London, UK
52. Zalmai Nishat, Senior Researcher, Afghanistan Institute for Strategic Studies (AISS), Afghanistan
53. Hannah Sender, Research Fellow, Institute for Global Prosperity, University College London, UK
54. Marika Theros, Policy Fellow, LSE (UK) and Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council, USA
55. Dr. Liza Schuster, Sociologist, City, University of London, UK
56. Shable Jamaludin, PhD Candidate, EHESS, Paris and Assistant Professor, Kabul University, Afghanistan 
57. Alessio Kolioulis, Teaching Fellow, University College London, UK
58. Shahid Zadran, MPhil, Churchill College, University of Cambridge, UK
59. Dr. Iavor Rangelov, Research Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK 
60. Pierre Péfau, PhD Candidate, University of Toulouse, France
61. Alessandro Monsutti, Professor of Anthropology and Sociology, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
62. Ping-hsiu Alice Lin, PhD Candidate in Anthropology, Chinese University of Hong Kong
63. Tobias Marschall, PhD Candidate in Anthropology and Sociology, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva – Switzerland
64. Thomas Loy, Research Fellow, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Institute of Iranian Studies, Vienna, Austria 
65. Dr. Orzala Nemat, Director, Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, Afghanistan
66. Dr. Patricia Gossman, Associate Asia Director, Human Rights Watch, Brussels, Belgium 
67. Dr. Marilou Nordez, Postdoctoral researcher, University of Toulouse
68. Julie Billaud, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
69. Dr. David Mansfield, Independent Researcher, UK  
70. Professor Karl Blanchet, Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Studies, University of Geneva, Graduate Institute, Geneva, Switzerland
71. Professor Julio D Davila, The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London, UK
72. Professor Beatrice F. Manz, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA
73. Jonah Rudlin, Research Assistant at The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London, UK
74. Robert Crews, Professor of History, Stanford University, USA
75. Beatrice Barco, Research Student, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
76. Dr. Morwari Zafar, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Georgetown University, USA
77. Dr. Niamatullah Ibrahimi, Lecturer, La Trobe University, Australia
78. Abbas Farasoo, PhD Candidate, Deakin University, Australia
79. Gabrielle van den Berg, Professor of Cultural History of Iran and Central Asia, Leiden University, The Netherlands
80. Sarah Craggs, Research Fellow, Stanford University and University of California, Berkeley, USA
81. Jason Lyall, James Wright Chair of Transnational Studies, Dartmouth College, USA
82. Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili, Director, Center for Governance and Markets, Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh, USA
83. Farshin Kazeminia, PhD in Molecular Biology, Senior Researcher, Sorbonne University Pierre et Marie Curie Paris-6, France
84. Deedee Derksen, writer and researcher, Belgium
85. Marlene Laruelle, Director, Central Asia Program, IERES, The George Washington University, USA
86. Benjamin Korman, PhD Candidate, Kühne Logistics University, Germany
87. Antonio Giustozzi, Visiting Fellow, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), UK
88. Naysan Adlparvar, Lecturer, Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Yale University, USA
89. Nile Green, Ibn Khaldun Endowed Chair in World History, UCLA, USA
90. Shah Mahmoud Hanifi, Professor, James Madison University, USA
91. S. Maisam Wahidi, PhD Fellow at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy (IFSH), Hamburg University, Germany
92. Dr. Abby Stoddard, Partner, Humanitarian Outcomes
93. Baki Tezcan, Associate Professor, University of California, Davis, USA
94. Dr. Chihab El Khachab, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Cambridge
95. Daniella Farah, PhD Candidate, Stanford University, USA
96. Duygu Yildirim, PhD Candidate, Stanford University, USA
97. Jisha Menon, Associate Professor, Stanford University, USA
98. Marjan Wardaki, Lecturer, California State University, USA
99. C. Ryan Perkins, South Asian and Islamic Studies Librarian, Stanford University, USA
100. Farah Bazzi, PhD Candidate, Stanford University, USA 
101. Catherine Baylin Duryea, Assistant Professor, St. John’s University School of Law, USA
102. Daniel J. Sheffield, Assistant Professor, Princeton University, USA
103. Noam Chomsky, Laureate Professor, University of Arizona, Institute Professor Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
104. Sabauon Nasseri, PhD Candidate, Stanford University, USA
105. Ali Anooshahr, Professor of History, University of California, Davis, USA
106. Rebecca Gruskin, PhD Candidate, Stanford University, USA
107. Maşallah Nar, PhD Candidate, Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversite, Turkey
108. Maiwand Nangyal, MPhil Postgraduate Student, St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge, UK
109. Colin Marx, Associate Professor, University College London, UK
110. Fethi Kurtiy Şahin, PhD Candidate, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
111. Jane Darby Menton, PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge, UK
112. Rohullah Amin, Research Fellow and Lecturer, University of Bundeswehr, Germany
113. Wazhmah Osman, Assistant Professor, Temple University, USA
114. Usha Iyer, Assistant Professor, Stanford University, USA 
115. Aria Fani, Assistant Professor, University of Washington, USA
116. Dr. Maria Besiou, Dean of Research & Professor, Kühne Logistics University, Germany
117. Astri Suhrke, Senior Researcher emerita, Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway
118. Anna Schultz, Associate Professor, University of Chicago, USA
119. Sarper Atakul, PhD Candidate, University of Ankara, Turkey
120. Inderpal Grewal, Professor Emeritus, Yale University, USA
121. William Maley, Professor of Diplomacy, The Australian National University, Australia
122. Ali İğmen, Professor of History, California State University, USA
123. Neepa Majumdar, Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh, USA
124. Dr. Srinjoy Bose, Senior Lecturer, University of New South Wales, Australia
125. Tanvir Ahmed, PhD Candidate, Brown University, USA
126. Aslishah Qurbani, Postdoc, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, UK
127. Carolina-Maria Mendoza, PhD Candidate, Brown University, USA
128. Ayşe Hilal Kaymak, PhD Candidate, İstanbul University, Turkey
129. Suad Joseph, Distinguished Research Professor, University of California, Davis, USA
130. Mohammad Qadam Shah, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Global Development, Seattle Pacific University, USA
131. Madihah Akhter, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow of History, Stanford University, USA
132. Darshana Mini, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
133. Mohammad Daud Hamidi, PhD Researcher, Durham University, UK
134. Suhaila Meera, PhD Candidate, Stanford University, USA
135. Dean Chahim, PhD Candidate, Stanford University, USA
136. Waleed Ziad, Assistant Professor, Religious Studies, Dr. Ali Jarrahi Fellow in Persian Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
137. Arif Saba, PhD Candidate, Deakin University, Australia
138. Safiullah Taye, PhD Candidate, Deakin University, Australia
139. Yaseen Ayobi, PhD Candidate, Deakin University, Australia 
140. Dara Conduit, Research Fellow, Deakin University, Australia
141. Dr. Helena Zeweri, Assistant Professor-Global Studies, University of Virginia, USA
142. Dr. Timor Sharan, Adjunct Professor of Public Administration, Afghanistan 
143. Dharitri Bhattacharjee, Assistant Professor, Western Washington University, USA
144. Jawed Nader, PhD Candidate, University of New South Wales, Australia
145. Ümit Seven, PhD Student, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
146. Dr. Fatima Mojaddedi, Assistant Professor, UC Davis, USA
147. Ezgi Özten, PhD Candidate, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
148. Dr. Susanne Schmeidl, Senior Lecturer, UNSW Sydney, Australia
149. Dr. Huma Saeed, Affiliated Researcher, University of Leuven, Belgium
150. Dr. Nematullah Bizhan, Lecturer, Australian National University, Australia
151. Dr. Willem Vogelsang, Department Director International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden, the Netherlands
152. Dr. Nishank Motwani, Deputy Director, Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, Afghanistan
153. Dr. Kevin L. Schwartz, Researcher, Oriental Institute of Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
154. Dr. Wendy M. K. Shaw, Professor of Art History and Islamic Cultures, Free University, Berlin
155. William Sherman, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, UNC-Charlotte, USA
156. Fuchsia Hart, PhD Candidate, University of Oxford, UK
157. Dr. Rodrigo Mena, Researcher, ISS of Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
158. Dr. Paul Wordsworth, Research Fellow, University of Oxford, UK
159. Yusuf Ikbal Oldac, PhD Candidate, University of Oxford, UK
160. Felicity Gerry QC, Professor of Legal Practice, Deakin University, Australia 
161. Lucia Cirianni Salazar, PhD Candidate, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
162. Amir Imani, PhD Candidate, Marmara University, Turkey
163. Aziz Aksu, PhD Candidate, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
164. Dr. Marissa Quie, Fellow and Lecturer, University of Cambridge, UK
165. Mahbubeh Moqadam, PhD Student, Syracuse University, USA
166. Dr. Charles Lindholm, Professor Emeritus Department of Anthropology, Boston University, USA
167. Dr. Iftikhar Dadi, Associate Professor, Cornell University, USA
168. Mohsen Jalali, PhD Candidate, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
169. Dr. Hatem Bazian, Professor, University of California, Berkeley and Zaytuna College, USA
170. Gabriela Seith, PhD Candidate, Free University, Germany
171. Hasibe Tuna, PhD Candidate, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
172. Johann Neem, Professor of History, Western Washington University, USA
173. Julia Rieg, PhD Candidate, Kühne Logistics University, Hamburg
174. Parwana Fayyaz, Junior Research Fellow, Peterhouse, Cambridge University, UK
175. Buket Demirbüken, Instructor, Marmara University, Turkey
176. Suvir Kaul, A M Rosenthal Professor, University of Pennsylvania, USA
177. Anirban Baishya, Assistant Professor, Fordham University, USA
178. Amit Baishya, Associate Professor, University of Oklahoma, USA
179. Noah Coburn, Professor of Anthropology, Bennington College, USA
180. Wali Ahmadi, Professor of Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USA
181. Dr. Hamid Algar, Professor Emeritus of Islamic Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USA
182. Dr. Zohra Saed, Assistant Professor of Literature, Bard Early College Queens, USA
183. Edmund Herzig, Masoumeh and Fereydoon Professor of Persian Studies, University of Oxford, UK
184. Adam Pain, Visiting Professor, Swedish University of Agricultural Science, Uppsala, Sweden
185. Dr. Melissa Kerr Chiovenda, Assistant Professor, Zayed University, UAE
186. Malaiz Daud, PhD Fellow, Free University of Berlin, Germany
187. Shahla Haeri, Associate Professor, Boston University, USA
188. Dr. Saber Azam, Author and former UN Representative, Switzerland
189. Sumit Ganguly, Professor of Political Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
190. Dr. Yaqub Ibrahimi, Lecturer, Carleton University, Canada
191. Dr. Ahmad Sarmast, Founder and Director of Afghanistan National Institute of Music, Afghanistan
192. Antonio Donini, Researcher, Graduate Institute Geneva and co-founder of United Against Inhumanity, Switzerland
193. Norah Niland, Executive Committee Member, United Against Inhumanity, Geneva Switzerland
194. Justine Landau, Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, USA
195. Dr. Dipali Mukhopadhyay, Associate Professor of Global Policy, University of Minnesota, USA
196. Domenico Ingenito, Director of the Program on Central Asia, UCLA, USA
197. Rawya Khodor, PhD Candidate, University College London, UK
198. Dr. Frances Brown, Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, USA
199. Ali Banuazizi, Professor of Political Science, Boston College, USA
200. Alexandre Papas, Senior Research Fellow, National Centre for Scientific Research, France
201. Joe Soss, Cowles Professor for the Study of Public Service, University of Minnesota, USA
202. Dr. Khadija Abbasi, The Graduate Institute, Geneva, Switzerland
203. Dr. Stephen Biddle, Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, USA
204. Dr. Niels Van Quaquebeke, Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior, Kühne Logistics University, Germany
205. Viola Allegranzi, Postdoc researcher, The Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
206. Dr. Christina Ewig, Professor, University of Minnesota, USA
207. Romain Malejacq, Assistant Professor, Radboud University, Netherlands
208. Dr. Zoe Marks, Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, USA
209. Suzanne Levi-Sanchez, Assistant Professor, Naval War College, USA
210. Dr. Marissa Quie, Director of Studies in HSPS, Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, UK
211. Dr. Mehdi Khorrami, Professor Emeritus, New York University, USA
212. Dr. C. Christine Fair Professor Security Studies Georgetown University Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, USA
213. Helen M Kinsella, Associate Professor of Political Science at University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA
214. Sarah E. Parkinson, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University, USA
215. Dr. William Reno, Professor, Northwestern University, USA
216. Mariajosé Nieto-Combariza, PhD Candidate, University College London, UK
217. Dr. Roxani Krystalli, Lecturer, University of St Andrews, UK
218. Dr. Joshua M. Roose, Senior Research Fellow, Deakin University, Australia
219. David Roxburgh, Professor, Harvard University, USA
220. Dr. Phil Connors, Associate Professor Humanitarian Studies, Deakin University, Australia
221. Dr. Halim Rane, Associate Professor, Griffith University, Australia
222. Dr. Stephanie Schwartz, Assistant Professor, University of California, USA
223. Dr. Severine Autesserre, Professor, Barnard College – Columbia University, USA
224. Abdullah Fahimi, PhD Candidate, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany
225. Faiz Ahmed, Associate Professor of History, Brown University, USA
226. Dr. Robert Jervis, Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics, Columbia University, USA
227. Houchang Chehabi, Professor, Boston University, USA
228. Professor Ali Asani, Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, USA
229. Dr. Eileen Babbitt, Professor of Practice, The Fletcher School at Tufts University, USA
230. Maziar Behrooz, Associate Professor, San Francisco State University, USA
231. Tahmina Shayan, Instructor, Capilano University, Canada
232. Professor Anibal Gonzalez, Yale University, USA
233. Farideh Farhi, Affiliate Graduate Faculty, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, USA
234. Afshin Marashi, Farzaneh Professor of Modern Iranian History, University of Oklahoma, USA
235. Haideh Hashemi Nouri, Faculty Member at Capilano University, British Columbia, Canada
236. Claudio García Ehreneld, Researcher at the Centre of Classical Studies in the Institute of Philological Research, National Autonomous University of Mexico
237. Dr. Laurie Kocher, Capilano University, Canada
238. Syed Ammad Ali Shah, Research Assistant, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
239. Marta Simidchieva, Department of Humanities, York University, Toronto, USA
240. Professor Azadeh Kian, University of Paris, France
241. Cemal Kafadar, Professor of History, Harvard University, USA
242. Dr. Roxani Krystalli, Lecturer, University of St Andrews, UK
243. Christof Kurz, PhD, Independent Researcher/Consultant, Berlin, Germany
244. Andreas Björklund, PhD Candidate, University of Oxford, UK
245. Kimberly Howe, Assistant Research Professor, Tufts University USA 
246. Dr. Suhailah Akbari, Associate Professor of Law, Takhar University, Afghanistan
247. Sheri Berman, Professor, Barnard College, Columbia University, USA
248. Erica S. Simmons, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies, University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA
249. Naqib Rahmani, Master of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK
250. Dr. Younes Saramifar, Assistant Professor, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
251. Julia Black, Faculty, Capilano University, Canada
252. Anubha Anushree, PhD Candidate, Stanford University, USA 
253. Adrienne Argent, Faculty, Capilano University, Canada
254. Rachel Yu, Faculty, Capilano University, Canada
255. Dr. Mehrdad Amanat, Independent Scholar, Los Angeles, California, USA
256. Marta Simidchieva, Department of Humanities, York University, Toronto
257. Mohammad Ali Kadivar, Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Studies, Boston College, USA
258. Dr. Josh Cerretti, Associate Professor, Western Washington University, USA
259. Dr. Scott Levi, Professor of History, Ohio State University, USA
260. Robert Nichols, Professor, Stockton University, USA
261. Jane Mikkelson, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Virginia, USA
262. Monica M. Ringer, Professor of History and Asian Languages and Civilizations, Amherst College, USA
263. Atifa Rawan, Library Faculty Emeritus, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
264. Richard K. Wolf, Professor, Harvard University, USA
265. Dr. Annabella Cant, Capilano University, Canada 
266. Dr. Monique Cormier, Lecturer, University of New England, Australia
267. Noorin Nazari, PhD Candidate, University of Ottawa, Canada
268. Camron Michael Amin, Professor of History, University of Michigan – Dearborn, USA
269. Dr. A.G. Ravan Farhadi, Professor Emeritus and Former Ambassador of Afghanistan to the United Nations
270. Dr. Farid Younos, Former Professor of Cultural Anthropology, California State University East Bay (CSUEB), USA
271. Dr. Stephanie Rehbock, Postdoctoral Scientist, Technical University of Munich, Germany
272. Dr. Naimat Ullah Khan, Assistant Professor, University of Peshawar, Pakistan 
273. Sıla Uluçay, PhD Candidate, University of Oxford, UK
274. Dr. Ali A Olomi, Assistant Professor of History, Penn State Abington, USA
275. Dr. Haroun Rahimi, Assistant Professor of Law at the American University of Afghanistan and the Visiting Research Fellow at Oxford Center for Islamic Studies, Afghanistan-UK
276. Dr. Torunn Wimpelmann, Chr Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway
277. Dr. M. Nazif M. Shahrani, Professor of Anthropology, Central Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
278. Marvin G. Weinbaum, Professor Emeritus, Middle East Institute, Washington, DC, USA
279. Elaine Beltran-Sellitti, MA in Education, Capilano University, Canada
280. Christopher Dole, Professor of Anthropology, Amherst College, USA
281. Dr. Jana Krause, Associate Professor, University of Oslo, Norway 
282. May Schinasi, Author and Researcher, Independent Scholar, France 
283. Sheida Dayani, Preceptor in Persian, Harvard University, USA
284. Clark B. Lombardi, Dan Fenno Henderson Professor of Law, University of Washington, USA
285. Dr. Ulf Steinberg, Postdoctoral Researcher, Technical University of Munich, Germany
286. Dr. Shamshad Pasarlay, Independent Scholar, USA
287. Nayereh Tohidi, Professor, Department of Gender & Women’s Studies, California State University, Northridge, USA
288. Caroline B Pacheco, PhD Candidate, Simon Fraser University and Capilano University, USA
289. Navid Gorgin, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Philosophy, Beheshti University of Tehran, Iran
290. Virginie Greene, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures (French), Harvard University, USA
291. John Quigley, Professor Emeritus, Ohio State University, USA
292. Sneha Krishnan, Associate Professor in Human Geography Tutorial Fellow in Geography at Brasenose College, University of Oxford, UK
293. Amin Saikal, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Director of the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, The University of Western Australia, Australia 
294. Margaret A Mills, Professor Emerita, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Ohio State University, USA
295. Professor James M. Gustafson, Associate Professor of History, Indiana State University, USA
296. Julia Rieg, PhD Candidate, Kühne Logistics University, Hamburg, Germany
297. Dr. Sara Nur Yıldız, Researcher, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany
298. Najibullah Sadid, PhD Candidate, University of Stuttgart, Germany
299. Dr. Asfandyar Mir, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, USA
300. Professor Dr. Ali Wardak, University of South Wales, UK
301. Dr. Homaira Rahimi, Training & International Relations Officer, International Civil Defence Organization, Switzerland
302. Moheb Mudessir, PhD Candidate, University of Sussex, UK 
303. Dr. Reza Hoshmand, Professor of Economics and Senior Advisor to the Global Institute of Service Leadership, China
304. Dr. Huma Baqai, Associate Dean and Associate Professor, Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, Pakistan
305. Dr. Kamran Mumtaz, Assistant Professor, Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, Pakistan
306. Johanna Söderström, Senior Lecturer, Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden
307. Sabiha Mehreen, Senior Research Associate, IBA Karachi, Pakistan
308. Umme Kulsoom Rizvi, Lecturer, Federal Urdu University, Karachi, Pakistan
309. Dr. Abdullah Z. Sheikh, IBA Karachi, Pakistan
310. Sajjad Ahmad, Lecturer, Department of Social Sciences and Liberal Arts, Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, Pakistan
311. Dr. Amber Gul Rashid, Faculty Member, IBA Karachi, Pakistan
312. Sumayyah Khurshid Khan, Lecturer, Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, Pakistan
313. Hisham bin Zubair Syed, Assistant Professor, IBA-Karachi, Pakistan
314. Rajid Ali Khan, PhD Candidate, IBA Karachi, Pakistan
315. Belgheis Jafari Alavi, Institut des Langues et Civilisations orientales, France
316. Dr. Zaheeruddin Asif, IBA, Karachi, Pakistan
317. Dr. Ilfan Oh, Assistant Professor, Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi, Pakistan
318. Dr. Matthew Thomas Miller, Assistant Professor, Roshan Institute for Persian Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
319. Dr. Rateb Karimi Hamburg Germany Chief Executive Officer/Chairman Hamburger Immobilien Ent. Kontor & Advisor priv. University of Economic Hamburg
320. Dr. Joel Cabrita, Assistant Professor of History, Stanford, USA
321. Muna Khan, Lecturer, Institute of Business Administration, Karachi Pakistan
322. Dr. Nausheen H Anwar, Professor IBA, Pakistan
323. Dr. Intikhab Ulfat, Professor, Department of Physics, University of Karachi, Pakistan
324. Kate Clark, Co-director of Afghan Analysts Network (AAN), Afghanistan
325. Vira Ameli, PhD Candidate, University of Oxford, UK
326. Martin Gerner, Fellow at the Institute for Media and Communication Policy, Private Lecturer, Cologne/Germany