Sharif Fayez, also known as Mohammed Sharif Fayez, (1946 – February 8, 2019), was an

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, who also served as the country's Minister of Higher Education from 22 December 2001 to 2007. He has written several English and Persian books. Fayez was born in 1946 in

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of Afghanistan. He received his Ph.D. in American literature from the

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in 1978. He lived most of his life in the United States due to the wars in Afghanistan. After the removal of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (Taliban government), Fayez returned to Afghanistan and was chosen as the country's Minister of Higher Education during the December 2001 Bonn Conference in

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. He later founded the

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(AUAF). He served as head of the AUAF for its first two years, from 2004 to 2006.

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Death

Fayez died on February 8, 2019, reportedly from a

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. He was 73 years old at the time of death.

References

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