Layla Sarahat Rushani (ca. 1952-54 [1] – 21 July 2004) was an Afghan poet. Her first name also appears as Laila. [1]
The daughter of Sarshar Rushani, a journalist who was executed by the ruling communist party, [1] she was born in Charikar [2] and studied at Kabul University. Her sister died in Australia and her mother died soon afterwards. She published a number of poetry collections, consisting mainly of modern Persian poems. [1]
Rushani left Afghanistan for the Netherlands due to the persecution of women by the Taliban. She published a literary journal in Persian, Eve in Exile, there. She died of brain cancer in 2004. [2]