Azizullah Royesh (known as Aziz Royesh, ) is a
Hazara, social activist, teacher and writer from Afghanistan.
Biography
Aziz Royesh was born in 1969 in
Fazel Baig, Kabul, Afghanistan. After leaving school at age 10, he travelled to
Ghazni Province
Ghazni (; ) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in southeastern Afghanistan. The province contains 19 Districts of Afghanistan, districts, encompassing over a thousand villages and roughly 1.3 million people, making it the 5th most ...
before moving to Quetta, Pakistan alone at age 11. Because Royesh had no family in Quetta, he worked in tailor shops, bakeries, and small factories to support himself. Unable to continue his formal education, he continued to study what he could on his own outside his work.
At the age of 16, he returned to Afghanistan and established five schools in Ghazni province. With the reemergence of the
Taliban
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in 1994, he returned to Pakistan and established th
Marefat High Schoolfor Afghan Refugees in Pakistan. After the fall of the Taliban in 2001, Marefat High School was transferred to Kabul's
Dashte Barchi while a branch in Pakistan remained open.
The Marefat School and Royesh are subjects of a non-fiction work, "The Last Thousand: One School's Promise in a Nation at War" (2016) by American writer Jeffrey E. Stern.
Best Teacher in the World
In 2015 he was nominated the Best Teacher of the Year in the world.
Publications
* A book in
Dari language
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See also
*
List of Hazara people
References
External links
*
www.afghan-bios.infoworldfellows.yale.edu/Azizullah Royesh
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Hazara writers
Hazara politicians
People from Kabul
1970 births
Living people