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Version 1 of The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif
5 Nov 2026 by Ibrar Ali
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Najaf Mazari was born into a Hazara family and worked as a shepherd before moving to Mazar-i Sharif at twelve to learn rug-making. In 2008, with the author Robert Hillman, he wrote this account of his life.1
The two later worked together on The Honey Thief (2011), a collection of short stories about the Hazara people.1
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Wikipedia, Najaf Mazari. See also the Open Library record. ↩ ↩2
