Willem Vogelsang
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Willem Vogelsang (born 1956 in
Early life and education
Vogelsang specialises in the history and cultures of Central Asia, Iran and Afghanistan. He has written numerous books and articles on the subject. In the 1970s he studied Indian and Iranian languages and cultures at the
In march of 1990 Vogelsang obtained his PhD degree at the University of Groningen in The Netherlands by defending his thesis titled "The Iranian Achaemenid Empire: Investigation Into the Establishment and Organization of Persian Achaemenid Domination of the Iranian Plateau and Beyond".
Career
Until 2002, Vogelsang was the Executive Secretary at the
In June 2008, Vogelsang was appointed by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs as the Regional and Cultural Advisor for the Dutch Embassy in Kabul, to be based in Uruzgan, South Afghanistan.
Starting in 2011, Vogelsang was appointed deputy director of the International Institute for Asian Studies of Leiden University.
Books
- "The Iranian Achaemenid empire: investigations into the establishment and organisation of Persian Achaemenid domination on the Iranian Plateau and beyond", PhD thesis Groningen 1990, 331 p.
- The rise and organisation of the Achaemenid Empire: the eastern Iranian evidence, 1992, 344 p., ISBN 90-04-09682-5
- Afghanistan: mensen, politiek, economie, cultuur, milieu, 2002, 74 p., ISBN 90-6832-397-0. Revised edition 2010, 125 p.
- Afghanistan: een geschiedenis, 2007 (second, revised edition), 208 p., Bulaaq - Amsterdam, Van Halewyck - Leuven, ISBN 90-5460-073-X
- The Afghans, 2008 (second, revised edition), 382 p., ISBN 978-0-631-19841-3
- Covering the Moon. An Introduction to Middle Eastern Face Veils, with Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood, 2008, 247 p., ISBN 978-90-429-1990-7
- Together with Gillian Vogelsang- Eastwood: An Encyclopedia of Embroidery from Central Asia, the Iranian Plateau and the Indian Subcontinent., 2021. London: Bloomsbury.. ISBN 978-1350017248
- Together with Gillian Vogelsang- Eastwood: An Encyclopedia of Embroidery from Sub-Saharan Africa Asia, 2023. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1350264274
External links
- Afghanistan-deskundige maakt overuren, NOS NieuwsSpeciaal, 26 November 2001 (in Dutch)
- Gasten VN in debat: 'Terug uit Afghanistan?', Vrij Nederland (in Dutch)
- Landenreeks: Afghanistan, Oxfam Novib(in Dutch)
- Willem Vogelsang adviseur voor Afghanistan, Afghanistan-nederland-vogelsang.blogspot.com (in Dutch)
- Interview with Willem Vogelsang, Uruzgan. (in Dutch)
- Een toekomstvisioen. Interview June 2010. (in Dutch)
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