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Born on May 19, 1949, in Logar Province, he pursued an education that ranged across continents and institutions: Habibia High School and Kabul University in Afghanistan, Lake Oswego High School in the United States, the American University of Beirut, and then Columbia University, Harvard University, Harvard Business School, and Stanford University. That sequence of study trained him across the fields of anthropology, economics, and related disciplines, and he went on to work as an anthropologist, economist, university teacher, and writer. He held citizenship in both Afghanistan and the United States, and worked in Pashto, English, and Arabic.\n\nThe breadth of his formal training — spanning some of the most competitive academic institutions across multiple countries — shaped a career that moved between scholarly and public domains. As a university teacher and writer, he engaged with questions of economics and governance from within academic settings. 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But I hope to make it easier for my successor.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":47,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":48},{},[],{"id":91,"quote_text":92,"author_id":5,"source_id":55,"has_image":56,"author":93,"source":94,"quote_tag":95,"commentary":48},3562341,"My entire life has been guided by a sense of equality, equality for loved ones.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":47,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":48},{},[],{"id":97,"quote_text":98,"author_id":5,"source_id":55,"has_image":56,"author":99,"source":100,"quote_tag":101,"commentary":48},3562340,"I went to Pakistan; I engaged in peace. 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