Ravan A. G. Farhâdi

Ravan A. G. Farhâdi

Professor Ravan A. G. Farhâdi (born 23 August 1929 in Kabul, Afghanistan) was the Ambassador to the United Nations for Afghanistan. He is an ethnic Tajik from Panjsher. He first assumed this position in 1993, renewing his appointment on 11 January 2002.His tenure as Ambassador ended in December 2006.

Education

Farhâdi graduated high school in Esteklal in 1948. He studied at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris, France, achieving a degree in 1952. He then earned his Ph.D. at the Sorbonne, in Indo-Iranian Studies, in 1955. His paper was on Ni'matullah.

Career

Ravan Farhâdi worked as a diplomatic carrier from 1956 to 1973. He then took a position as a professor in the History of Persian Literature at the Sorbonne in 1981, and then at the Department of Near East Studies, University of California, Berkeley, from 1985 to 1993. At Berkeley, he taught subjects ranging from Persian Literature to Islamic medieval mysticism. In 1993, he became the Ambassador of Afghanistan to the United Nations. Currently, he is heavily involved in Palestinian rights.

Professor Farhâdi has written a number of historical texts, including "The Quatrains of Rumi", where he translated over 1600 of the quatrains attributed to Rumi, and "Abdullah Ansari of Herat", about the Persian mystic, Khajeh Abdollah Ansari.

External links

* [http://www.ssnv.org/farhadi.htm Biography]


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