In this panel, Afghan and foreign journalists will discuss the future of Afghanistan coverage at a time when scores of local journalists have been forced to flee the country, others have stayed behind...
Bilal Sarwary
Bilal Sarwary is an Afghan journalist who has worked extensively with Western media. He has covered Afghanistan for the BBC since 2001, the year in which the US-led invasion toppled the Taliban. He is an independent scholar majoring in the central linkages between warfare, drugs and terrorism. He graduated from Middlebury College, Vermont in 2010. His thesis was entitled The Farcification of Taliban, and it involved a comparison of Columbia's FARC with the Afghanistan’s Taliban insurgency.
The return of the Taliban in August 2021 to Afghanistan affected all the aspects of Afghan lives including the access to information. More than 40% of the media have closed and 80% of women journalist...
