I. EDUCATION

• B.A. - The University of Michigan, 1960- Economics
• M.A.- The University of Michigan, 1965- Economics
• Ph.D.- The University of Chicago, 1972, Education and Social Order

II. HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS, ETC.

• Four-years undergraduate scholarship
• Fellowship (1965), Center for Research in Economic Development, the University of Michigan
• Fellowship (1966-1969), the University of Chicago
• Research Grant (1973), Center for International Comparative Studies, University of Illinois, field work in the USSR (Central Asia), Afghanistan, and the People's Republic of China
• Research Grant (1973-74), academic year), the University of Illinois Research Board
• Research Grant (1975), American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Teaching Russian and as Second Language to Non-Russian Speaking Minorities in the USSR
• Invited (1977), by the Ministry of Planning, Republic of Afghanistan, to head a Research Team from the University of Illinois to Evaluate the First National Demographic and Family Guidance Survey of Afghanistan.
• Invited (1978) by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Planning Afghanistan, School Demography and the Economics of Education, Kabul, Afghanistan
• Co-founder - Schools for Refugees, Meshhad, Iran, February, 1980
• Invited (February,1980) , Afghan Refugee Authorities in Iran, Occupational Survey of Afghan Refugees
• Invited Lecture, (December 19, 1980), "Afghanistan: One Year After the Soviet Invasion," Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Stockholm
• Research Grant (1983), Afghan Education Commission for Refugees, Peshawar, Pakistan, - Surveying the Educational Options of Refugee Children
• Invited (1985), Ministry of Education, Islamic Republic of Iran- Evaluation of Textbooks for the Elementary and Secondary Schools Students
• Research Grant (1985), Afghan Education Commission for Refugees, Mashhad, Iran
• Invited by ISRA (1989), as a Resource Person to the "International Conference: Hijrah, Repatriation And Reconstruction of Afghanistan: A New Challenge, November 23-25, 1989, Peshawar, Pakistan.
• Research Grant (1985), Afghan Education Commission for Refugees, Mashhad, Iran
• Invited (Fall 1992), by the Institute of the History of the Central Asian People and the weekly literary journal, Uzbekiston Adabiyot wa Sana'ti, Designing the Post Soviet curriculum, Republic of Uzbekistan
• Honored Guest (October 5, 1992), at Nodirabegum Bi-Centennial, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
• Appointed (December 1992-January 1993), to the Supreme Council for the Reconstruction and Reconciliation of Afghanistan, Kabul, Afghanistan
• Appointed (July, 16-28, 1994) to the Congress for the Establishment of the Constitutional Convention for Afghanistan, Herat, Afghanistan
• Visiting Professor, Hiroshima University, 1999.

III. RESEARCH AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• 1964-1966, the University of Michigan, Research Consultant, Education and Social Change in the Developing Countries: Soviet Uzbekistan
• 1967-1968, the University of Chicago, Research Assistant, Pre-Soviet Economic Development of Russia
• 1968-1969, the University of Chicago, Research Assistant, Education and the Political Development of the USSR
• 1969-1971, the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Education
• 1971-1976, the University of Illinois, Assistant Professor of Comp. Ed. & Economics of Ed.
• 1976-present, the University of Illinois, Associate Professor of Comparative Education & Economics of Education
• 1970-present, Member, Core Instructional Faculty, the University of Illinois, Center For Russian and East European Studies, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, Center for African Studies, and South and West Asian Studies Program.

IV. LANGUAGES OF RESEARCH:

Arabic, Dari, Pashto, Persian, Russian, Tajik

V. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND CURRICULUM BUILDING

• Comparative and International Education Society, Member, Board of Directors, 1975-1977.
• Chair, Comparative and International Education Society, Committee on Underrepresented Racial/Ethnic Groups, 1990-1992
• Director, Office of International Programs in Education, College of Education, 1971-1972, College of Education, the University of Illinois
• Chair, Committee of International and Cross-cultural Education, College of Education, 1972
• Member, Steering Committee of Cross-cultural and International Teacher- Training Program, College of Education, 1972
• Member, Faculty Planning Committee on International Programs and Studies, the University of Illinois, 1970-1973
• Vice-Chairman, Committee on Undergraduate General Education, Department of History and Philosophy of Education, College of Education, 1972
• Member, Committee on Race and Ethnicity, Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois, 1974-1975
• Member, Executive Committee, Committee on Culture and Education, University of Illinois, 1975-1976, College of Education
• Member, Executive Committee, Bilingual/Bicultural Education, 1976-1977
• Member, Executive Committee, Program in South and West Asian Studies, 1984, 1995-96
• Member, University of Illinois Senate, 1986-1988
• Member, Committee on Conduct and Governance of the University of Illinois, 1986
• Member, National Committee on Evaluating Cross-cultural and International Education Curricula, Comparative and International Society, 1975-1976
• Member, Executive Committee, Educational Policy Studies, the University of Illinois, 1973-1974, 1976-1977, 1980-1981, 1983- 1984
• Member, Executive Committee, Russian and East European Center, the University of Illinois, 1971-1987
• Member Executive Committee, for Asian Studies Center, the University of Illinois, 1975-1977, 1979-1981
• Member Strategic Planning Committee for International Education, College of Education, 1995-1997
• Member Educational Policy Studies Advisory Committee 1996-1997
• Member, International Education Research Committee, College of Education 1997-98
• Member Taskforce On Comparative and International Education Finances (1998-1999)

VI. PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS

• Access to Education of National Minorities
• Access to Education and Jobs.
• Religions
• Economic Development
• Customs, Traditions and, their Modernization
• Economics of Education
• Economics of Language
• Second Language Acquisition and Social Linguistics
• Dissemination of Information, Knowledge and, Their Understanding
• Globalization and Culture

VII. COURSES DEVELOPED AND TAUGHT

1. Seminar on Education and Economic Development
2. Seminar on Education in the Socialist Countries
3. Seminar on Education in the Development of the Human Resources of the Soviet Union
4. Educational Planning
5. Social Foundations of Education
6. Education in Developing Countries
7. Economics of Education
8. Comparative Education
9. Education and the Minorities
10. Chinese Education
11. Microeconomics
12. Politics of the Language of Instruction
13. Economics of Language
14. Islamic Education
15. The Ethical Basis of Education: An Alternative
16. Soviet Education
17. The Philosophies of State and Education in Islam
18. History of Educational Ideas
19. The Education of the Siberians in the USSR (Taught at the University of Hawaii)
20. Twentieth Century Political Thoughts and Movements in Islam
21. Introduction to Russia and Central Eurasia (A Russian and East European Center Course)
22. Discovering International Education (for Freshmen)

VIII. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS and MONOGRAPHS

    A. Publications

• "The Place of Local Women in the 'Multi-Tiered' Culture of the Soviet Central Asia," Abstracts in Anthropology, Vol. 2, 1971.
• "Cross-cultural and International Education Program: A Rationale," Newsletter of Comparative and International Education Society, No. 26, September-October 1972.
• "Who Shall be Educated: Selection and Integration in Soviet Central Asia," in Edward Allworth's edition of The Nationality Question in Soviet Central Asia, New York: Praeger, 1973, Chapter 7.
• "Soviet Development Strategies in Central Asia," Canadian Slavonic Papers, Vol. 17, Nos. 2 & 3, (1974) , pp. 404-416.
• "The Pedagogical Linguistic and Logistical Problems of Teaching Russian to the Local Soviet Central Asians," Slavic Review, September 1976, pp. 443-462.
• "Access of Minorities in Soviet Union, People's Republic of China, and Islamic Countries," International Encyclopedia of Higher Education, Vol. 2, 1977, November, pp. 71-76.
• "Dissent of the Muslims: Soviet Central Asia in the 1980s," Nationalities Papers, Vol. IX, No. 2, 1981, pp. 185-194. Reprinted in Al-Ittihad, Vol. 19 (April-June 1982), pp. 21-30.
• "Education of Ethnic Minorities in the Soviet Union," in P. Altbach and G. Kelly's edition of Education and the Colonial Experience, New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1984, pp. 205-225.
• "The Impact of the Kemalists' 'Revolution' on Afghanistan," Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. VII, No. 3 (Spring 1984), pp. 34-45.
• "Planning by Decree: Soviet Language Policy in Central Asia," Language Problems and Language Planning, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Spring 1984), pp. 35-49.
• "Islam and Nationalism in West Turkestan (Central Asia) on the Eve of the October Revolution," Nationalities Papers, Vol. XII, No. 2 (Fall 1984), pp. 247-263.
• "Islam wa Milligara'i dar Kutub Darsi Afghanistan," Roshd Mu'allim, Tehran: Jamhuri Islami Iran, Wazarat Amuzish wa Parwarish, No. 3 (1986), pp. 24-28, 61-62.
• "Traditional Islamic Education in Central Asia Prior to 1917," in Chantal Lemercier-Quelquejay, Gilles Veinstein, and S. Enders Wimbush edition of Passe' Turko-Tatar, Pre'sent Sovietique, Leuven-Paris: Editions Peeters (Editions De L' E'cole Des Hautes E'tudes En Sciences Sociales) (1986), pp. 316-343.
• "The Impact of the Revolution on Curricula," Faslnamah (Quarterly Journal of Education), Tehran: Ministry of Education, (Summer 1986), pp. 91-98.
• "From Nomadism to Socialism: An Inquiry into the Soviet Educational Policies in Kazakhistan," in R. Lawson, V. Rust, and S. Shafer edition of Education and Social Concern: An Approach to Social Foundations, Ann Arbor, MI: Prakken Publications (1987), pp. 160-174.
• "Bilingual Education in Soviet Central Asia," in Christina Bratt Paulston edition of International Handbook of Bilingual Education, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1988, pp. 429-447.
• "The Islamic Revolution and Education in Iran," Comparative Education Review, (February 1988), pp. 58-75; Reprinted in Philip Altbach and Gail Kelly's edition of Textbooks in the Third World: Policy, Content and Context, New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1988, pp. 247-268. In the 1989 edition of the same book , S. Chand & Co., Ltd., New Delhi, the article is reprinted, pp. 242-263.
• "Messianic Foreign Assistance and Education," Proceedings of the Midwest Comparative and International Education Society, Urbana, Illinois, (October, 1989), pp. 321-334.
• "The Uses of Comparative Ethnicity Research," with Frederick Wirt in Comparative Education Review, Vol. 37., No. 1 (February 1993), pp. 1-8.
• "The Uzbeks and the Tajiks: Conflict Resolution and the Soviet Experience," in Padma L. Dash's Russian Dilemma: The Ethnic Aftermath, Cuttack, India: Rrya Parakashan, 1994, pp. 53-73.
• "Back to Jadidism: The Future of Education in Central Asia," Islamic Studies, V. 33 , Nos. 2-3 (Summer-Autumn 1994), pp. 161-182.
• "Education in Afghanistan," Encylopeadia Iranica, volume VIII, Fascicle 3, Mazda Publishers, 1998, pp. 237-241.
• "Globalization and Culture," Journal of International Cooperation in Education, Vol.2, No.2, 1999, pp.15-24.

    B. Editing, Translations and Monographs

• Acting Editor, Slavic Review, V. 38, No., 1, (March 1979)
• Editor, with F. Wirt, Comparative Education Review (Special Issue on Ethnicity and Education), Vol. 37, No. 1, (February, 1993).
• Translation of Abdullah Samander's Roots of Fundamentalism, from Dari, 1994
• Translation from Dari of N'iamatullah Shahrani's "NASKH " in his Qur'anShinasi, Peshawar, n. d., : Jihad University? (1989?), Pp. 42-47,
• Development for Servitude: Soviet Education in Central Asia, pp. 550.
• Soviet Educational Reforms and National Minorities, pp. 120.
• Lenin's Tale (khvost)-The Debacle of the CPSU in Afghanistan: 1979-1989, pp. 250.
• Reconstructing Formal Education in Afghanistan, pp. 200.
• Reflections on Islam and Afghanistan, pp. 180.
• The Impact of External Debt on Education in Developing Countries: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Midwest Comparative and International Education Society, pp. 420. (edited with others)
• Education in the Farsi Speaking World: Afghanistan, Iran, Tajikistan
• Education in the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic: 1917-1967, Ph.D. Dissertation, Division of the Social Sciences, The University of Chicago, 1972

IX. SELECTED PAPERS PRESENTED:

• "The Employment Opportunities of Local Women of the Soviet Central Asian Republics," paper read at the University of Chicago colloquium on Education and Political Development, Chicago, IL., February 1970.
• "The Place of Local Women in the 'Multi-Tiered' Culture of the Soviet Central Asia," paper delivered at the Interdisciplinary Conference on Process of Change in Contemporary Asian Societies, Champaign, IL, November 5, 1970
• "Who Shall Be Educated?" paper delivered at the Conference on the Nationality Question in Soviet Central Asia, Columbia University, New York, April 7-8, 1972. (see publications)
• "Selection of Minorities to Higher Education: The U.S. and the USSR," paper delivered at the Annual Convention of Comparative and International al Education Society, San Antonio, TX, March 25- 27, 1973.
• "Literacy Education: The Soviet Experience," paper delivered at the Comparative and International Education section of AACTE, Chicago, IL, February 23, 1973.
• "The Effect of the Language of Instruction Upon Enrollment and the Supply of 'High-Level' Human Resources," paper delivered at the University of Chicago, seminar on Education and the Political Development of the USSR, Chicago, IL, April 24, 1973.
• "The World of Polytechnical Education: A Report on Chinese Schools, " paper delivered at the China Seminar, Purdue University, Lafayette, IN, November 3, 1973.
• "Political Socialization in Chinese Schools, " paper read at the Seminar on the Problems of Chinese Politics and Government, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, October 16, 1973.
• "Ethnicity and Schooling in Soviet Central Asia, " paper presented at South and West Asia Seminar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 2, 1973.
• "China's Policy Toward National Minorities, " paper delivered on the occasion of China Day at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 26, 1974.
• "Reactions to a Workshop on Nation Building and National Integration in the USSR'" Paper presented to the First International Slavicists Conference, Banff, Alberta, September 1-7, 1974
• "Soviet Central Asia: A Brief Personal Report, " paper prepared for discussion at Russian and East European Center, University of Illinois, 1974
• "Language Planning, Ethnicity, and Education in the USSR, " paper delivered at the Central Slavic Conference, St. Louis, MO, November 8-9, 1974.
• "Oral Literature of Afghanistan: An Annotated Bibliography," (mimeo) 1974
• "Some Personal Notes on Educational Development in the People's Republic of China, " Center for Asian Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1975. (mimeo)
• "Some Linguistic Problems of Teaching Russian in Central Asia, " IRRSCREE discussion group, Russian and East European Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, February 10, 1976.
• "The Kazakhs' Short Journey from Feudalism to Socialism: An Inquiry into the Soviet Social Engineering, " paper delivered at the 20th Annual Convention of Comparative and International Education Society, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, February 25-27, 1976.(see publications)
• "Soviet Ethnography and Anthropology in the Middle East, " Midwest Slavic Conference, Chicago, IL, May 6-8, 1976.
• "Conflict Among Non-Russian Ethnic Groups in Central Asia, " Midwest Slavic Conference, Chicago, IL, May 6-8, 1976.
• "The Educational and Occupational Attainment of Non-Russian Women: The Case of Soviet Central Asia, " paper presented at the 8th National Convention of AAASS, St. Louis, MO, October 6-9, 1976.
• "Tajiks in the Social Systems of Afghanistan and the USSR, " paper delivered at Soviet-Asian Ethnic Frontiers Conference, Michigan State University, East Lansing, February 25-26, 1977.
• "The Ideological and Political Foundations of Language Policy in the Soviet Union, " paper presented for the Workshop on Language Policy: An Integrative Perspective, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March 9, 1977.
• "Eating Before Reading: The Significance of Agriculture in Development, " paper presented to University of Illinois Foundation, Urbana, IL, October 1, 1977.
• "Communism and Cultural Pluralism: The Education of National Minorities in the People's Republic of China, " paper delivered to the Inner Asian Group and the Middle Eastern Studies Center, Harvard University, November 8, 1977.
• "Reactions of the Afghan Bureaucracy to the April 1978 Coup d'Etat, " paper presented to the Asia Society, New York, November 13, 1978.
• "Education in Afghanistan: Some Proposals, " summaries of position papers on human resource development of Afghanistan, submitted to the Minister of Education of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, Kabul, May 1978.
• "Soviet Central Asians in Afghan Affairs Since the April 1978 Coup, " paper presented at Columbia University, New York, November 14, 1978.
• "The future of the Soviets in Afghanistan," MSA-UIUC, Feb., 1980
• "What Happened and What Will Happen in Afghanistan," University of Ottawa, Canada February 4, 1980.
• "Islam and the Soviets in Afghanistan, " paper presented at the conference on Soviet Options in Afghanistan, US Department of State, February 18, 1980.
• "The Breakdown of a Theory: Muslim Women in the Soviet Higher Education," presented at the Second International Slavicists Conference, Garmisch, West Germany, September 30-October 4, 1980.
• "Dissent of the Muslims: Soviet Central Asia in the 1980s, " presented to the 12th Annual Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Philadelphia, PA, November 7-8, 1980. (See publication)
• "Afghan Jihad and the West," Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, November 25, 1980
• "Afghanistan: One Year after the Soviet Invasion, " paper presented at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Stockholm, December 19, 1980.
• "Until the last Afghan Dies," MSA-UIUC, March 21, 1982
• "The Impact of the Kemalist 'Revolution' on Afghanistan, " paper presented on the occasion of Ataturk Centennial, The University of Chicago, June 5, 1982. (See publication)
• "Jadidist Education, " University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (mimeo) (see publications)
• "Traditional Islamic Education in Central Asia Prior to 1917, " University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1982. (See publication)
• "The Reactions of the Muslim Central Asians to the Events in Afghanistan and Iran, " paper presented to the 14th Annual Convention of American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Washington, DC, October 14-17, 1982.
• "The Education of the National Minorities in the Soviet Union, " paper presented at the 27th Comparative and International Education Society Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, March 16- 19, 1983. (see publications)
• "Islam and Nationalism in the West Turkestan |Central Asia on the Eve of October Revolution, " paper presented to the Eleventh Annual Meeting of Midwest Slavic Conference, Chicago, IL, May 6-7, 1983. (See publication)
• "The Education of the Afghan Refugee Child, " presented at the 17th Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies of North America, Chicago, IL, November 3-6, 1983.
• "Islam, Nationalism, and Sovietism: Conflicting Ideologies in the Soviet Cauldron, " presented at the 12th Annual Convention, Midwest Slavic Conference, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, May 4-5, 1984.
• "Dependency Theory and the Soviet Education of National Minorities, " paper delivered at the World Council of Comparative Education Societies, Paris, France, July 2-6, 1984.
• "Education and the State in the Islamic Republic of Iran, " paper presented to the South and West Asian Studies Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, September 13, 1985.
• "Afghanistan: After the Russians, " paper presented to the Workshop on Afghanistan: Different Scenarios, Program in Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 2-4, 1985.
• "The Aftermath of the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan," 1985
• "The Destruction of Herat by the Soviet Invading Forces," ( a short version published in Champaign-Urbana News Gazette, 21 March, 1985; al-Ittihad; Soroush; and Crescent International.
• "Themes of Islam and Nationalism in the Textbooks of Afghan Children, " paper presented at the Conference on the Impact of Nationalism on the Ummah, London, England: London Institute of Education, July 31, August 1-3, 1985. (See publication under "Islam wa Milligara'iha...")
• "A Comparison of the Functional Components of Education in the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., " paper presented at the Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland, OH, February 10, 1986.
• "Methods of Power Consolidation by the Soviet Union in Afghanistan," Paper presented to the participants of the USIA Seminar, University of Illinois at-Urbana-Champaign, February 14,1986.]
• "The Impact of the Revolution on the Curricula: Iran, " paper presented at the 30th Annual Meeting of Comparative and International Education Society, Toronto, Canada, March 13-16, 1986. (See publication)
• "The Concepts of Property and Government in Islam, " paper presented to the Muslim Students Association, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, June 13, 1986.
• "Afghanistan, Its Neighbors and the Position of the Superpowers in the Conflict, " paper presented to the United States Information Agency (USIA) Seminar, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, July 30, 1986.
• "The Reaction of National Minorities to the Soviet Educational Reforms of 1984, " paper delivered to the Comparative and International Education Society, Washington, DC, March 12- 15, 1987.
• "The Impact of War on the Education of Afghan Refugees, " paper presented to the Comparative and International Education Society, Washington, DC, March 12-15, 1987.
• "The Transition of Youth From School to Work: Soviet Central Asia, " American Educational Research Association, Washington, DC, April 20-24, 1987.
• "Images of Homeland and Invaders in the Textbooks of the Afghan Refugees, " paper delivered at the Comparative and International Education Society, Atlanta, GA, March 17-28, 1988.
• "The Socio-Economics of Training Shop Floor Workers in Soviet Central Asia, " paper presented at the Third International Conference on Central Asia, University of Wisconsin at Madison, April 27-30, 1988.
• "Afghanistan: Re-structuring Formal Education, " Paper Presented to the Annual Meeting of Middle East Studies Association of North America, Los Angeles, Ca. , November 3-5 , 1988.
• "Messianic Foreign Assistance and Education, " Paper presented to the Annual Meeting of Comparative and International Education Society, Cambridge, Mass., March 30-April 2, 1989.
• "Restructuring and Reconstructing Formal Education: Relearning the Past, Rebuilding the Future, "International Conference: Hijrah, Repatriation And Reconstruction of Afghanistan: A New Challenge, November 23-25, 1989, Peshawar, Pakistan.
• "Higher Education in the Gulf States, " with Mohammed E. Faheem, presented at the Comparative and International Education Society, Anaheim, Ca., March 22-25, 1990.
• "The Islamization of Knowledge and Science: An Assessment, " with Mohammed Faheem, presented at the Comparative and International Education Society Meeting, Anaheim, California, March 22-25, 1990.
• "The 'Landlocked' people of Siberia," State of Hawaii Humanities Lecture, Honolulu, July 9, 1990.
• "The First Encounter: Russians in the Early Literature of the Muslims: I. Azerbaijan: Nizami and Khaqani: 1, Russians in the Khamsah of Nizami Ganjawi", paper presented at the "Fourth International Conference in Central Asia: Language, Nationality and Social Order in Central Asia, 1100-1990, " University of Wisconsin at Madison, September 27-30, 1990.
• "Education After the USSR: Soviet Central Asia, " Paper presented to the Comparative and International Education Society Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pa., March 14-17, 1991.
• "Socialist Education," paper presented to the Russian and East European Center of the University of Illinois, May, 1991
• "The End of the Dreams the Beginning of Awakening: Muslims at the End of the 20th Century, " mimeo, June 1991.
• "Literacy in Turkistan From the Samanids to the Fall of the USSR, " Paper presented at the literacy series of the Program for the Study of Cultural Values and Ethics of the University of Illinois, Urbana, October 23, 1991.
• "The Uzbeks and the Tajiks: Conflict Resolution and the Soviet Experience," Russian and East European Center, November, 1991, (see publications)
• "Back to Jadidism: Turkistani Education After the Fall of the USSR, " Paper presented to the Comparative and International Education Society Meeting, Annapolis, MD., March 12-15, 1992. (see publications)
• "Proposals for the Reconstruction and the Development of Formal Education and Training in Afghanistan, " Shura'i Ahli Hal wa Aqd, Kabul, Afghanistan, December 29, 1992-January 2, 1993.
• "Re-learning the Past: Jadidism in Central Asia," Paper presented at the Midwest Slavic Studies Conference, East Lansing Michigan, 30 April -1 May 1993.
• "Problem of Textbook Writing and Production in the Post-Soviet Central Asia, " paper presented to the Midwest Comparative and International Education Society, East. Lansing Michigan, October 28-30, 1993.
• "The Problem of Teaching Commitment and Competency in the Schools of the Former Soviet Republics of Central Asia," Paper presented at the International Conference on Central Asia and the Caucasus, Tehran, January 17-19, 1994.
• Teaching and Research on Central Asia and the Caucasus in the US: A Historical Outline, Paper presented at the International Conference on Central Asia and the Caucasus, Tehran, January 17-19, 1994.
• "Redrawing the Curricula in the Schools of the former Soviet Republics of Central Asia," Illinois Consortium for International Studies and Programs, Curriculum Workshop: Russia's Cultural, Historical, and Political Links to the World, Urbana, Illinois, October 28-29, 1994.
• "What is New in the Education of 'Islamic Fundamentalism ?' " Educational Policy Studies Seminar, College of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana, 11 November, 1994.
• "Soviet Implosion and the Teacher in Uzbekistan," Paper Presented at the Comparative and International Education Society Meeting, Boston, March 29-April 2, 1995.
• "Ethnicity and Islam in the Post-Soviet Central Asia, " Association of Muslim Social Scientists, East-West University, Chicago, Ill, October 27-29, 1995.
• "The Sufi Halqah, " First Presbyterian Church, 19 November 1995, Urbana, Illinois.
• "Shuras, Accords, and Jirgas in the Civil War of Afghanistan," Middle East Studies Association, Washington, D. C. , December 7-10, 1995.
• "Some Compounded problems in Education," Paper prepared for delivery at the UNESCO-UNICEF- Ministry of Education of Iran,, Conference on the Future of Education in the 21st Century, November 25-27, 1995, Tehran, Iran. (Paper was read for me at the Conference)
• "Internationalizing College of Education, " University of Illinois, College of Education, March 1, 1996.
• "Field Notes from Central Asia, " Educational Policy Studies Seminar Series, College of Education, University of Illinois, 01 March 1996.
• "A Short History of International Educational Activities of the University of Illinois College of Education, " 07 August 1996.
• "Entombed Alive: Women Education and Development in Afghanistan: 1994-1997, " Comparative and International Education Society, Mexico City, March 19-23, 1997.
• "Migration in Central Asia and Afghanistan, " Migration and Immigration: A Global Perspective, University of Illinois, April 25, 1997.
• "No Way Out of Stagnation: Knowledge and Understanding in the Islamic World, " CIMIC Halqa; May 11, 1997.
• "The Scripture Literacy and the Role of the Vernacular Language, " Khutbah, Masjid, Urbana, Illinoios, June 13, 1997'
• "Globalization and Culture," paper delivered at the Center for the Study of International Cooperation in Education, Hiroshima University, January 27, 1999.
• "Perspective on Women's Education in Developing Countries," paper delivered at the Center for the Study of International Cooperation in Education, Hiroshima University, February 16, 1999.
• "Colonial Legacy and Reform," paper delivered at the Center for the Study of International Cooperation in Education, Hiroshima University, March 9, 1999.

X. GRADUATE SEMINARS:

• Kabul University
• Tehran University
• Institute of Orientalia, former USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow
• Peshawar University, Pakistan
• Tajik State University, Dushanbe, Tajik istan
• Uzbek State University, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
• Ministry of Education, Beijing, PRC
• Shanghai Teachers Training Institute
• Aligar University, India
• The University of Chicago
• University of Hawaii
• Harvard University
• Hiroshima University

XI. COUNTRIES OF EXPERIENCE:

Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, Russia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Peoples Republic of China, Japan, Turkey, India, and the Arab World.