Angelo rasanayagam biography

          An expert on Afghanistan, Angelo Rasanayagam offers a detailed twentieth-century history of the country in Afghanistan: A Modern History....

          Rasanayagam, Angelo

          PERSONAL: Male.

          ADDRESSES: Home—Geneva, Switzerland.

          Angelo Rasanayagam was Chief of Mission for the United Nations in Iran and a number of other countries, before becoming Director of the UNHCR office in Peshawar, Pakistan.

        1. Angelo Rasanayagam, retired UN diplomat who worked for nearly three decades with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), passed away in.
        2. An expert on Afghanistan, Angelo Rasanayagam offers a detailed twentieth-century history of the country in Afghanistan: A Modern History.
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          CAREER: Writer. Works for U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).


          WRITINGS:

          Afghanistan: A Modern History, I.

          B. Tauris (New York, NY), 2003.


          SIDELIGHTS: An expert on Afghanistan, Angelo Rasanayagam offers a detailed twentieth-century history of the country in Afghanistan: A Modern History. Beginning with the accession of Abdul Rahman Khan, known as the "Iron Amir," in 1899, Rasanayagam traces more than 100 years of Afghanistan's development and history, up to the destruction of the Taliban in 2001 and the region's political uncertainty in early 2002.

          Rasanayagam situates Afghanistan into its key position between the empires of Russia, China, India, and Persia, with the rugged and dangerous country serving as a crucial link in the U.S.-led "War on Terror," and as a conduit to the rich petroleum resources of