WAhmad Javeed Ahwar or جاوید احور is a lawyer, writer and a human rights activist born on May 29, 1987, in Afghanistan. He speaks several languages; Dari his native, English, Pashtu, Dutch and Arabic. In late 2011 he published his first book by the help of Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Afghanistan under the title of Path Dependency and the International Conferences on Afghanistan: From Bonn 2001 to Bonn 2011".
WSonita Alizadeh is an Afghan rapper and activist who has been vocal against forced marriages. Alizadeh first gained attention when she released "Brides for Sale," a video in which she raps about daughters being sold into marriage by their families. With the help of Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami, an Iranian documentary filmmaker who over three years documented her story in the film Sonita, Alizadeh filmed the video to escape a marriage her parents were planning for her, even though it is illegal for women to sing publicly in Iran, where she was living at the time. After releasing the video on YouTube, Alizadeh was contacted by the Strongheart Group, which offered her a student visa and financial help to come and study in the United States of America, where she then relocated and has resided since. In 2015, she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women.
WMohammad Ishaq Aloko Pashto: محمد اسحاق الکو; born 1935) is the Attorney General of Afghanistan since August 2008. He was appointed by President Hamid Karzai after Abdul Jabar Sabit was forced to resign from the post. An ethnic Pashtun, he was born in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
WAssem Akram is an Afghan historian, and author from Kabul, Afghanistan.
WAwista Ayub is an Afghan writer and founder of the Afghan Youth Sports Exchange in the United States.
WWasef Bakhtari is an Afghan poet, literary figure and intellectual.
WFarhad Bitani is an Afghan popularizer.
WZohre Esmaeli is a model, designer and author from Afghanistan. She lives in Berlin, Germany. She was said to be the only international top model from Afghanistan in 2014.
WAbdul Hai Habibi – ʿAbd' ul-Ḥay Ḥabībi) was a prominent Afghan historian for much of his lifetime as well as a member of the National Assembly of Afghanistan during the reign of King Zahir Shah. A Pashtun nationalist from Kakar tribe of Kandahar, Afghanistan, he began as a young teacher who made his way up to become a writer, scholar, politician and Dean of Faculty of Literature at Kabul University. He is the author of over 100 books but is best known for editing Pata Khazana, an old Pashto language manuscript that he claimed to have discovered in 1944; the academic community, however, does not unanimously agree upon its genuineness.
WChékéba Hachemi, is an Afghan feminist and writer. She was the first Afghan woman to be named diplomat, in 2001. She is the President and founder of the NGO Afghanistan Libre.
WMalalai Joya is an activist, writer, and a former politician from Afghanistan. She served as a Parliamentarian in the National Assembly of Afghanistan from 2005 until early 2007, after being dismissed for publicly denouncing the presence of warlords and war criminals in the Afghan Parliament. She is an outspoken critic of the Karzai administration and its western supporters, particularly the United States.
WFaiz Mohammad Kātib Hazāra most known as Kātib was son of Saeed Mohammad was born in 1860, in Zard Sang village of Nawur Distric of Ghazni Province of Afghanistan, he spent a part of his life in Nawur District another district of Ghazni, and died in Kabul on March 3, 1931. He was an ethnic Hazara and was of Muhammad Khwaja Hazara clan. He was Afghan court chronicler, a skilled calligrapher and secretary to Emir Habib Ullah Khan from 1901 to 1919. He was a well known historian, writer and intellectual, among the renowned group of Afghans seeking social and political changes in the country at the beginning of the 20th century, which shaped early regional politics from Afghanistan to Morocco therefore many of the Afghan people say the government should have named him as the Father of Afghanistan History. He was a member of what became known as Junbish-i Mashrutyat or The Constitutionalist Movement.
WMohammad Kazem Kazemi is a notable contemporary Afghan poet, author, literary critic and a book editor by profession. Among others, he is currently a member of the editorial board of Dorre Dari and Khatt-e-Sevom Journals. Kazemi has authored many books on Persian literature and Afghan poetry. He has also written the book “Rozaneh” (Window) which has been published for the fourth time in Iran and is considered to be the most famous poetry textbook. He is currently living in Mashhad in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
WKhalilullah Khalili was Afghanistan's foremost 20th century poet as well as a noted historian, university professor, diplomat and royal confidant. He was the last of the great classical Persian poets and among the first to introduce modern Persian poetry and Nimai style to Afghanistan. He had also expertise in Khorasani style and was a follower of Farrukhi Sistani. Almost alone among Afghanistan's poets, he enjoyed a following in Iran where his selected poems have been published. His works have been praised by renowned Iranian literary figures and intellectuals. Many see him as the greatest contemporary poet of the Persian language in Afghanistan. He is also known for his major work "Hero of Khorasan", a controversial biography of Habībullāh Kalakānī, Emir of Afghanistan in 1929.
WGen. Gharzai Khwakhuzhi, son of late. ustad Mohammad Ibraheem Khwakhuzhi original resident of Kandahar born in Kabul on 29 May 1962 belongs to Baloch ethnic group.
WUstad Mohammad Ibraheem Khwakhuzhi son of Dur Mohammad Khan Baloch was born on 28 February 1920 in Malajat district of Kandahar province, Afghanistan. His son Gharzai Khwakhuzhi is an active politician in Afghan government and his grandson Gharanai Khwakhuzhi is an Afghan Foreign Service Officer at Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.
WRazaq Mamoon is an author, political analyst and journalist from Afghanistan. He is currently living in Australia since November 2014.
WLutfullah Mashal is a politician in Afghanistan who last served as spokesman for the National Directorate of Security (NDS). Prior to that he was Governor of Laghman province. He is also a writer and a poet.
WMohammed Daud Miraki is an Afghan activist, writer and politician.
WY. Misdaq a.k.a. Yoshi is an Afghan-English multimedia artist, writer, creative consultant, and is founder of the arts website Nefisa, which also doubles as an independent media label- Nefisa UK. Since 2004 he has released four albums, three documentaries and three novels, and most recently has released a poetry series as well as appearing on numerous works, either anonymously or under different pseudonyms as writer, filmmaker, and performer.
WMohammad Shafiq Hamdam is a writer and a political activist in Afghanistan. He was a senior government official in Afghanistan and served as a Deputy Senior Adviser to The President Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, a Senior Analyst/ Advisor to NATO and the Chairman of the Afghan Anti-Corruption Network (AACN).
WFariba Nawa is an Afghan-American freelance journalist who grew up in both Herat and Lashkargah in Afghanistan as well as Fremont, California. She was born in Herat, Afghanistan to a native Afghan family. Her family fled the country during the Soviet invasion in the 1980s. She is trilingual in Persian, Arabic, and English. In 2000 she ventured into Taliban controlled Afghanistan by sneaking into the country through Iran.
WIdries Shah, also known as Idris Shah, né Sayed Idries el-Hashimi and by the pen name Arkon Daraul, was an author and teacher in the Sufi tradition who wrote over three dozen books on topics ranging from psychology and spirituality to travelogues and culture studies, and also a leading thinker of the 20th century.
WSakena Yacoobi is the founder and Executive Director of the Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL), an Afghan women-led NGO she founded in 1995. She is well known for her work for the rights of children, women and education. She has earned international recognition for her work and received numerous awards. This includes the 2013 Opus Prize, 2015 WISE Prize in Education and 2016 Harold W. McGraw Jr. Prize in Education as well as 6 honorary degrees including from Princeton University.
WMohammad Hashem Zamani, was a prominent Afghan poet.
WMojawer Ahmad Zyar is an Afghan linguist, writer and historian of Afghanistan.