of Representatives Aisha Wahab - Member of the Hayward City Council Ajmal Ahmady - Politician in Afghanistan Said Tayeb Jawad – Ambassador of Afghanistan to the United States from 2003 to 2010 Nazif Shahrani – Professor of anthropology at Indiana University Ishaq Shahryar – Afghan Ambassador to the United States from 2002 to 2003 Wali Karzai – Professor of Bio-Chemistry at Stony Brook University M. Ishaq Nadiri – Professor of economics at NYU and signatory at 2001 Afghanistan Bonn conference Nake M. Kamrany – Professor of economics at University of Southern California Haris Tarin – Director of Muslim Public Affairs Council ( MPAC) Tamim Ansary – Author of West of Kabul, East of New York, a book published in 2001, shortly after the "9-11" attacks. Khaled Hosseini – Best-selling author whose work includes The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns Fariba Nawa – Author of Opium Nation and journalist Qais Akbar Omar – Author of A Fort of Nine Towers and co-author of Shakespeare in Kabul Hamid Naweed - Author and art historian Leila Christine Nadir - Writer and Artist Ghulam Haider Hamidi - Former Mayor of Kandahar Hafizullah Emadi (born Shibar), independent scholar and development consultant for Focus Humanitarian Assistance Safi Rauf (born 1994) - 2021 Washingtonian of the Year, TED fellow, Tillman scholar, Georgetown graduate, Navy reservist, and the founder of Human First Coalition Business and finance Mahmoud Karzai – Brother of former Afghan President Hamid Karzai and owner of Afghan cuisine restaurant Qayum Karzai – Brother of former Afghan President Hamid Karzai and owner of Afghan cuisine restaurants in the Southern California and Baltimore–Washington Metropolitan Area Ehsan Bayat – Business entrepreneur who founded Afghan Wireless Masuda Sultan (born 1978), entrepreneur, international human rights advocate, and memoirist Sports Hailai Arghandiwal - Association football (soccer) player who plays for German club Duisburg and the Afghan national team. Adam Najem – Association football player who plays as a midfielder for Canadian Premier League club FC Edmonton, and the Afghanistan national team. David Najem – Association football player who plays as a defender for USL Championship club New Mexico United and the Afghanistan national team Ahmad Hatifi – Association football player who is a midfielder and currently plays for CD Aguiluchos USA Mohammad Mashriqi - Association football player Alex Hinshaw – Former baseball pitcher Jeff Bronkey – Former baseball player Shamila Kohestani - Former soccer player and founder of the