Abd al-Ghafur Arzu

Abdulghafour Arezou (born February 17, 1962, in Herat, Afghanistan) is an Afghan writer, poet, Bīdelšinās, and former university professor. By 2014 he had written more than 40 books about Persian poetry, literature, culture, and politics For his contribution to culture and language, he was awarded the medal of Ghazi Mir Bacha Khan kohdamani and the Abolghasem Ferdowsi's artistic cultural emblem. He finished primary school at Seyf ibn Yaqub Heravi High school. His brothers, Dr. Abdulrasul and Abdullah Arezou, and his nephew Dr. Parviz Arezu are also poets. He is married to Roudabeh Tamanna, the daughter of Afghan poet Abdul Karim Tamanna, and the couple have three children named Ramin, Ghazal, and Benyamin. He resigned from his post after seven months due to political disagreement and subsequently was appointed chargé d'affaires of the Afghanistan Embassy in Tehran, Iran. After that he was an advisor to the Afghanistan Minister of Foreign Affairs between 2007 and 2010. Lastly, from 2016 until the Fall of Kabul he was the Director General of the diplomatic archive of the Afghanistan foreign ministry. Due to the threat of persecution by the Taliban, he and his family escaped to Iran, where he joined the Center of Khorasan Studies of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad.