Biography
Education and Professional Life
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Education
- Ph.D. (1975), University of London, U.K. History
- M.Phil.(1968), School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, U.K., History
- B.A.(1957), Kabul University, Afghanistan. Major in History
Professional Experience
- 2002: Member, American Institute of Afghanistan Studies, Duke University, North Carolina
- 1990: Instructor, University of California, San Diego
- 1989-90: Fellow, East-West Center, University of Hawaii, Honolulu
- 1988-89: Staff and Council Member, Writers Union of Free Afghanistan (WUFA), Peshawar, Pakistan
- 1987: Professor, Kabul University, Afghanistan
- 1982-87: See nonacademic experience
- 1986-82: Professor and Chairman, History Department, Kabul University
- 1973-76: Visiting Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Harvard
- 1971-73: Visiting Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Princeton
- 1968-71: Associate Professor, History Department, Kabul University
- 1961-68: See Education
- 1957-61: Member, Pashto Academy and editor of Kabul (Journal)
Nonacademic Experiences
- Member, Afghan Cultural Association, Freemont, California, 1999
- Founding member of the Movement for a Representative Government in Afghanistan. Los Angeles, 1990-1994.
- Amnesty International “prisoner of conscience” at the Pul-e-Charkhi concentration camp in Kabul, 1982-1987
- Co-founder of the Union of Professors and Students of Afghanistan to monitor academic freedom set up secretly following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, 1980-1982
- Freelance journalist, researcher and broadcaster in Persian and Pashto for the BBC and Kabul Radio. Included in this series was English For You, a series of 150 lessons in Dari/Farsi prepared with the cooperation of the BBC for broadcast over the Kabul radio in Afghanistan, 1965-68
- Assistant Director, United States Information Service Library, Kabul. Taught also English in courses for Afghan students,1950-1952