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In every recounts of his escape from Kabul, Roya Saqib with difficulty discussing the details of despair to get salvation. A chaotic airport scene -tear gas, tears of children and shots, hot heat and crush on people, blocked airport gates, and finally, rescue and pain leave a loved one in the back.
This story has not become easier to tell in seven months since Saqib fled from the Taliban regime at the end of the American war in Afghanistan. As a collapsed government employee – technical assistant for the state president – and an activist for women’s rights, Saqib is at risk of retaliation if he remains.
I am also worried that I don’t have the future, that everything I have done and get in my life with many difficulties and challenges will all return to zero and I will sit at home, do not do anything and see what is happening in My country without being able to stop or change it, “he recalls.
In his new position at Montclair State University, Saqib was appointed as an instructional specialist at the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, and also pursued research as a fellow crisis of Afghanistan with New York University. “I am the lucky one who has this opportunity, but many returned to Afghanistan, they still suffer,” Saqib said. “That’s why I want to work for those who are left behind.”
The story, combined with academic and professional achievement, and its durability in facing life challenges, inspired members of the Montclair State University Foundation to provide funds for teaching positions in the Department of Political and Legal Sciences.
As the university involved, we act to build the world that we want to live in, and we know that our actions speak harder than any words,” said President Jonathan Koppell University. “Sometimes, sometimes, these actions may feel small compared to the tragedy scale that takes place throughout the world, but we are not blocked because in making this simple contribution we underline the role that we can all play in creating a more just world.”
Provides a safe place for neglected scholars consistent with the university’s identity and mission as an institution that serves the public, and includes saving undergraduate from Syria, Iran, Palestine and Iraq through the Institute of International Education Program. With the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the university also plans to welcome a Ukraine scholar this summer.
Pain and sadness felt by members of our university community in responding to violence and sustainable injustice are very deep, especially for those who have loved ones, friends and colleagues in the countries affected against human suffering, “Koppell said.
Saqib is a Fulbright graduate who has studied in India and the United States. “My life has been influenced by lack of security, uncertainty, war and migration. Not only me, anyone who experienced a civil war, migration, and conflict for decades in Afghanistan. It is very challenging and most of us have given our hopes and goals, “Saqib said.
This is a story that resonates with members of the Robert Gregory University Foundation Council. “I came from an immigrant family, some of them fled from the diaspora, and in the same condition, in a way that was rushed in the middle of the night, driven out of their homes, crossing the mountain to come here to find ways to rebuild,” he said.
We are at an intersection at geopolitics,” Gregory added, “In that case we must start deciding with whom we really want to be in line with, what value we want to promote and how we want to convey that point in the most meaningful way The most meaningful way. So whether it is in Ukraine or Afghanistan or Yemen, or a number of other places in sub-Sahara Africa, in China or Asia, or anywhere in the United States, we are at the point of inflexion. If we do not embrace this as our mission, then I think we are in the danger of losing our path as liberal democracy. “
