Bilal Sarwary is an Afghan journalist who has worked extensively with Western media outlets over the last twenty years in Afghanistan including the BBC for fourteen years. He is an independent scholar majoring in central linkages between warfare, drugs, and terrorism, and the FARC-ification of
the Taliban. Bilal graduated in 2010 from Middlebury College in Vermont. Bilal was evacuated in August 2021 after the Taliban took over Afghanistan. He lives with his family in Toronto. Bilal is fluent in Pashto, Dari, Urdu, and English.
