Fowzia Younos was born in Kabul City on August 6, 1955, and was raised into a musician family. She is the grand daughter of Ustad Qassem, the great composer of Afghanistan and the daughter of Ustad Yusuf and Karima Qassemi. Fowzia graduated from Lycee Aisha Durani of Kabul and served in the Ministry of Education. In 1975, she married Farid Younos who was a student of ethnography and cultural anthropology. Fowzia continued her education at the university of Aarhus University in Denmark. She was forced to leave Afghanistan upon the Soviet invasion with her husband in 1979. Later, in the United States, she studied in the field of Business Education and graduated with Master of Science in Education from Virginia Tech in 1986; being the first Afghan woman who completed a Master degree after mass migration upon the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Fowzia taught for 30 years in different junior colleges including twenty years at Heald Business College and served as an administrator in Contra Costa County, California and retired as a Medical Staff Coordinator until her retirement at the age of 70.