Sayd Majrouh

Sayd Bahodine Majrouh earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Montpellier, later serving as the Dean of the Department of Literature in Kabul, Afghanistan, and then as the Governor of the Province of Kapica. After the Soviet invasion, he went into exile in Peshawar, Pakistan, where he founded the Afghan Information Center. Majrouh is widely regarded as the literary heir of Rumi and Omar Khayyam, and his epic, Ego-Monstre, constitutes the whole of the major poetic work of twentieth-century Afghan literature. He was assassinated on February 11, 1988 in Peshawar.