AMANULLAH PARSA was born in Kabul, Afghanistan on December 27, 1933. He lived in his native city until age twenty-six and attended the combination classical-scientific State high school of Kabul. He then began teaching in elementary and middle schools in Kabul until he was transferred to Kandahar for a special work-shop at the Ahmad Shah Baba high school where he taught drawing and handwriting until 1956; he later returned to Kabul and studied law for one year at the state university. In 1959 he moved to Rome, after winning a six year scholarship for artistic studies awarded by the Italian government (Ministry of Foreign Affairs), where he received his Diploma in 1965 with very high marks, from the Accademia di Belle Arti ( Academy of Fine Arts) in Rome .

During this same period he attended the following courses:

• Graphic art for advertising, artistic decoration and fresco techniques at the Istituto di Arte Ornamentale San Giacomo (San Giacomo Institute of Ornamental Art) in Rome;
• Cinematic scenography at the C.I.A.C. Centre Italiano Addestramento Cinematografico ( Italian Center for Cinematic Training) (Don Orione opera house in Rome in 1965);
• Criticism of contemporary art, museography at the school of letters of the University in Rome;
• Sculpture, until the third year of the course, at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera (Brera Accademy of Fine Arts) in Milan and in 1965 he gave his first personal show as a painter, sponsored by the Ambassador to Afghanistan in Rome at the Gallena Anthea on Via del Babuino.

From 1966 to 1976 he lived once again in Kabul where he worked as a professor of graphic art and drawing at the State University at Kabul (a course in Architecture at the School of Engineering and a course in recreational painting and drawing at the School of Letters, as well as a course in modelling precious stones - lapis-lazuli and alabaster - at a studio sponsored by the Ministry of Minerals in Kabul). During this period he also designed many stamps for the Afghan government (Postmaster General) along with advertising graphics for Afghan rugs and astrakhan for the Commerce Ministry. Mr. Parsa wrote the course outline for a sketching and freehand drawing class for the School of Architecture along with that for a recreational painting course. For six years he was a professor at the School of Architecture, along with other professors from the Colombia group ( U.S.A.), and privately taught painting and drawing to the wife of the director of the Colombia group, Doctor Nonkivel.He worked as scenographer, decorator and poster designer for a theater (Pohane Nendare) in Kabul and made a scenographic panel for the Don Orione theater/opera house in Rome .He decorated the main dining hall for the Christmas 1961 inauguration of the C.I.V.I.S Casa Internazionale dello studente (International student center) in Rome.He painted three works on canvass for the Grand Hotel Intercontinental in Kabul and 25 works on wood (220 cm. X 150 cm.) in bas-relief for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kabul.