00:00I used to be an assistant professor at Kabul University and also at the American University of Afghanistan
00:05before collapse of the country to the Taliban.
00:08Haroun's future was looking bleak, but then the fellowship at a German university saved his academic career.
00:14You lose everything overnight and you are no one, like someone on the street
00:18or someone that doesn't have any hope or have lost everything.
00:21In that situation, programs like Philipp Schwarz Initiative really give you hope once again.
00:27Haroun was planning on returning to Afghanistan to work as a professor of criminal and transnational criminal law.
00:33But then the Taliban took over the country and going back was no longer an option.
00:38Someone like me would definitely face prosecution and probably imprisonment as well.
00:44The Philipp Schwarz Initiative made it financially possible for him to live in Berlin
00:48and continue his research at the Humboldt University.
00:51Over the last decade, more than 650 scholars from over 30 countries have received support.
00:56The goal is to protect the dangerous scientists.
01:00But in the middle- or long-term, if the situation has changed in the foreign countries,
01:06also that the people who can participate in the scientific development of the scientific system
01:11and contribute to this.
01:14Haroun's fellowship has ended.
01:16For now he's staying in Germany until it's possible for him to go back to Afghanistan.
01:19I'll see myself back in that country teaching the laws of that country to the students
01:25that they are actually thirsty of knowledge.
01:27child in knowledge.
01:27The
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