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| Ehsan Azari
Sydney-based Afghan writer
Born in a village near the Afghan capital, Kabul on 12March 1958, Ehsan Azari was graduated from Faculty of Civil Engineering, Kabul Polytechnic Institute in 1985. He never devoted himself to engineering. After obtaining a BSc in civil engineering, he began work as a writer and literary editor with The Kabul Times. During the Russian invasion of Afghanistan, he joined anti-communist resistance and then migrated to Pakistan in 1989, working as editor of WUFA-a literary and academic journal in Peshawar. In 1992, he migrated to Australia. After completion of a brief qualifying program, he was accepted in the MA program of School of English and Linguistics, Macquarie University, in Sydney. He obtained his MA thesis, which was on “The Unconscious in Ulysses: Joyce, Freud, and Lacan”. He later completed his PhD entitled, “Lacan and the Destiny of Literature: Shakespeare, Donne, Joyce, and John Ashbery” with the Department of Critical and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University. His PhD thesis is currently under review by examiners. Ehsan Azari began publishing his work at the age of 17, in Afghan media, in Pashtu, Dari and English languages. His writings appear regularly on a wide-range of topics in the media of Australian and other countries. The Author has written many short stories and dramas, and he is a scholar in the field of poststructuralist literary theory, Lacan, contemporary French theory, psychoanalysis, Sufism, Sufi philosophy, Rumi, interaction of Eastern and Western philosophies. He has also taught at Macquarie University and lectured at the Theosophical Society of Australia, and has given numerous public lectures on a variety of topics. Politics and journalism, however, remain his hobby. He can be reached at: eazari@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au |
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