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Angela Ghayour
Angela Ghayour is an Afghan educator and advocate for women's rights. After facing challenges with formal education as a child refugee in Iran, she began teaching literacy and numeracy to other refugee children. She founded Afghanistan Education Action. Early life and education Ghayour was born in Herat, Afghanistan, and faced challenges with formal education during her early years as a refugee in Iran. After returning to Afghanistan in 2002, she pursued higher education at Herat University Herat University (HU; ; ) is a public university located in Herat, the capital of Herat Province, in western Afghanistan. It was inaugurated in 1988, beginning with a faculty of Literature and Humanities. Its first President was Abubakr Rashed. T ..., earning a degree in Persian literature. Her experiences in Afghan classrooms and the impact of the Taliban's rule on education deeply influenced her. In 2021, amidst the Taliban's return to power, she founded the Herat Online School and later ...
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Herat, Afghanistan
Herāt (; Dari/Pashto: هرات) is an oasis city and the List of cities in Afghanistan, third-largest city in Afghanistan. In 2020, it had an estimated population of 574,276, and serves as the capital of Herat Province, situated south of the Paropamisus Mountains (''Selseleh-ye Safēd Kōh'') in the fertile valley of the Hari (Afghanistan), Hari River in the western part of the country. An ancient civilization on the Silk Road between West Asia, Central Asia, and South Asia, it serves as a Region, regional hub in the country's west. Herat dates back to Avestan period, Avestan times and was traditionally known for its wine. The city has a number of historic sites, including the Herat Citadel and the Musalla Complex. During the Middle Ages, Herat became one of the important cities of Greater Khorasan, Khorasan, as it was known as the ''Pearl of Khorasan''. After its conquest by Tamerlane, the city became an important center of intellectual and artistic life in the Islamic world ...
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Herat University
Herat University (HU; ; ) is a public university located in Herat, the capital of Herat Province, in western Afghanistan. It was inaugurated in 1988, beginning with a faculty of Literature and Humanities. Its first President was Abubakr Rashed. The university has 14 faculties and 45 departments. The most popular field of study is Education/Pedagogy. Although university education is indefinitely banned in Afghanistan, the Medical Faculty at Herat University has around 550 female students. In recent years, Herat University managed and maintained relations of cooperation with a number of foreign universities in United States, Germany, Italy, Thailand, Slovakia, Iran, India and Indonesia. As a result of this cooperation teaching curriculum in faculties of Computer Science, Science, Engineering, Economics, Agriculture, Medicine, Religious and Islamic and Journalism and mass communication has been partial or totally amended and syllabi and textbooks are prepared as well. In 2022, after ...
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Herat Online School
Herāt (; Dari/Pashto: هرات) is an oasis city and the third-largest city in Afghanistan. In 2020, it had an estimated population of 574,276, and serves as the capital of Herat Province, situated south of the Paropamisus Mountains (''Selseleh-ye Safēd Kōh'') in the fertile valley of the Hari River in the western part of the country. An ancient civilization on the Silk Road between West Asia, Central Asia, and South Asia, it serves as a regional hub in the country's west. Herat dates back to Avestan times and was traditionally known for its wine. The city has a number of historic sites, including the Herat Citadel and the Musalla Complex. During the Middle Ages, Herat became one of the important cities of Khorasan, as it was known as the ''Pearl of Khorasan''. After its conquest by Tamerlane, the city became an important center of intellectual and artistic life in the Islamic world. Under the rule of Shah Rukh, the city served as the focal point of the Timurid Renaissan ...
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