Zamir Saar
Class of 2022
Zamir Saar is a Pashto linguist and literary analyst who taught in the Pashto department of language and literature at Balkh University in Afghanistan since 2012 and co-founded Balkh Literary Movement. He is also a long-time student and practitioner of journalism. He helped a Belgian journalist film a documentary called Blood Antiques, about the smuggling of antiquities from Afghanistan to European markets, and also worked in a local radio station. Saar has worked as a videographer for Pajhwok Afghan News and as a freelancer for the Wall Street Journal, Expressen, TV4 and other media organizations. He began working full time for the Wall Street Journal in Afghanistan this year.
Canada needs to be as welcoming to Afghan refugees as it is to Ukrainians
From blood and bombs to ‘buds of hope’: Taliban poetry is changing its tone, but some say it’s a sham
Afghanistan’s libraries go into blackout: ‘It is painful to see the distance between people and books grow’
How I fled danger in Afghanistan for refuge in Ukraine
