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= Asef Hossaini = Sayed Asef Hossaini (01 May 1980 - ) is a Persian / Dari speaking poet and scholar from Afghanistan. His three poetry collections illustrate passion and love in the context of socio-political background of his life in Iran, Afghanistan, and Germany. His works may be considered as clear examples of dark romance in the Persian literature.

Biography
Asef Hossaini was born in Balkh, Afghanistan on the 1st May 1980 to a young family that was, one year later, forced to leave the country and migrate to Iran due to the USSR invasion in 1979.

As an Afghan refugee of the Cold War, he grew up in the suburbs of Mashhad, the second biggest city of Iran, and finished his high school. Due to the unwell economic situation Afghan refugees were facing in their everyday life, he had to join a carpet factory at age 9. He continued this job beside the education for almost 14 years before leaving Iran for Afghanistan in 2003, after the collapse of the Taliban regime.

In 2004, he entered the University of Kabul and studied Sociology and Philosophy. In 2005, he nominated himself for a seat in the first post-Taliban Parliamentary Elections in Afghanistan. The book of The Last Days of Autumn shares his political experiences as the youngest candidate.

In 2008, he received a German scholarship (DAAD) to study public policy at the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy at the University of Erfurt. From 2011 to 2016, he conducted his doctoral research on power structures in Afghanistan’s rural communities at the same school.

Publications
His first poetry collection was published in Kabul in 2004 under the title of These Walking Shoes. The book illustrates Hossaini's first abstract works (Sher-e Hajm). The second book was published one year later in Tehran by Erfan Publication. The book I, Child of Lunar Eclipse expressed his live experiences in postwar ruined Kabul. In contrast to the peer works, the poems of the second collection are visual, more detailed, and longer in size. In 2013, after the settlement in Germany, he published the book Four Planets in My Room. Critics have ranked the book as one the darkest, pessimistic romantic works in contemporary Afghanistan’s Persian literature. the poem of Terrorists Speak in Strange Languages published in English by the Guernica Magazine, as he himself describes, is his poetic political manifesto. In addition to poetry collections, Hossaini has written tow political books:


 * Kabul; The Little Texas (2004)
 * The Last Days of Autumn (2006)

Academic Books and Articles

 * 2019 - Locality and Power (book chapter - Rebuilding Afghanistan in Times of Crisis)
 * 2018 - Power Structures in Afghanistan's Rural Communites (book)
 * 2018 - How social media is changing Afghan society
 * 2013 - Die afghanische Jugend zwischen Tradition und Moderne (2013)
 * 2013 - Die Rolle der Stämme (2013)
 * 2013 - Afghanische Diaspora und Brain Drain

Official Website
http://asefhossaini.com/index.php/fa/