Background
Farhadi, Ravan A. G. was born on August 23, 1929 in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Farhadi, Ravan A. G. was born on August 23, 1929 in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Bachelor, Istiqlal College, Kabul, 1948. Graduate, Institute d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, Department of International Relations, 1952. Doctor of Philosophy in Indo-Iranian Philology, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, University Paris, 1955.
Lecturer. History and Political Thought, University Kabul's School of Law and Political Science, 1955—1958. First secretary Afghanistan Embassy in Pakistan, Karachi, 1958—1961. Director United Nations Affairs, Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1961—1962.
Counsellor, dep, chief of Mission Afghan Embassy in Washington District of Columbia, 1962—1964. Director-general Political Affairs, Afghan Foreign Ministry, 1964—1968. Deputy foreign minister Afghan Foreign Ministry, 1968—1973.
Secretary Council of Ministers of the Afghan Government, 1965—1973. Ambassador France, 1973—1979. Associate professor University Paris, Pantheon-Sorbonne, 1981—1985.
Visiting fellow Australian National University, Canberra, 1985. Associate professor Department of Near Eastern Studies, University California at Berkeley, 1985—1992. Permanent representative to Afghanistan United Nations, New York City, since 1993.
Member Advisory Science Commission of Afghanistan's Ministry of Culture, 1975—1978. Political prisoner Soviet Union, 1979—1980. Vice-chairman Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People at the United Nations Headquarters, New York City, since 1993.
Married; 3 children.