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Herati Women Poets

Afaq Jalariz

Amjad Rezay

Bedeli

Dilshad Khatoon

Fatima Akhtar

Fatima Sajjadi

Hamida M. Husseini

Hanifa Faryor Rostay

Hayati

Hazuqa Herati

Maah

Mahjub Herati

Majuba Herawi

Maryam Kanizak

Maryam Turkmeni

Mehrunesa

Huma M. Azar

Senawbar Hajeza

Zahra Mahmudi

Zahra Rasuli

Ziagul Sultani

Biographies of Herati woman poets

She was born in 1951 in Herat.  In 1971, her first poem was published in Etefaqul Islam newspaper (Herat).  Following the rise in insecurity in Herat, she came to Kabul.

She graduated with a BA from Kabul’s faculty of literature, and taught Dari in some schools.  In 1995, she left Afghanistan and currently lives in Germany with her husband and family.

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