Rahman Arman
Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies/Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region
Expert Bio
Rahman Arman is originally from Afghanistan. In 2005, he graduated from the Faculty Medical School of Herat University and received his M.D. as a general practitioner.
Arman joined Indiana University’s Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region in October 2007 as a Pashto material developer and soon started teaching advanced Pashto classes for the Department of Central Eurasian Studies. He has many years of experience developing Pashto and Dari material. He has published Dari introductory and intermediate textbooks that have been published by Georgetown University Press.
Currently, he creates Dari and Pashto materials for online classes. Arman was promoted to senior lecturer in 2017.
Areas of Expertise
Online language lecturer and developer; Dari and Pashto languages.
Other Information
Native speaker of Pashto and Dari; fluent in Farsi and English; good language skills in Urdu and Hindi.
Writer of poetry and freelance translator in Dari and Pashto languages