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<Dr. Ehsan Azari Stanizai was born in 1958 in Logar province, south of Kabul. He belongs to Pashtun Stanizai tribe from father and mother sides. After graduation from the university, he started work as a literary editor with the Kabul Times. Following the invasion of Afghanistan by the Russian forces, he worked began to work as the editor of an English academic journal WUFA, Writers Union of Free Afghanistan in Pakistan where he was living as an Afghan refugee. In 1992, he migrated to Australia and settled in Western Sydney. He studied English literature at Macquarie University from where he obtained his MA and PhD in English literature. He has taught at Macquarie University and other cultural institutions, and currently he is an Adjunct Fellow with the University of Sydney’s Writing & Research Group. He is working at present on two books: Poststructuralist Desire and Psychoanalysis ad Sufism: Jung, Freud, Lacan and Rumi. He is frequently writing on Afghanistan in the international media. He spent times in Kabul last year. He worked as a Senior Specialist of English with the Education Ministry of Afghanistan, but resigned after six months for it was too difficult for him to keep up with a corrupt government and gruesome insecure city. He resigned from his post, which was funded by the World Bank. He returned to Australia to live in an abject poverty but refused to live with free money in his own country, occupied by foreign forces. Although politics is not his field of study or research, he likes it as his hobby. He is the author of: Alcan and the Destiny of Literature: Desire, Jouissance and the Sinthome in Shakespeare, Donne, Joyce and Ashbery, Continuum, 2008. Dr Stanizai’s columns appear frequently in The Huffington Post>