Ali-Akbar Abdolrashidi

Ali Akbar Abdolrashidi (; born 9 July 1949 in Kerman) is an Iranian intellectual, journalist, writer, traveler, television host, translator, and university lecturer. During his lengthy career as a journalist, Abdolrashidi conducted hundreds of television interviews with notable international figures, such as Fidel Castro, Rajiv Gandhi, and Muammar al-Gaddafi. For most of his career, Abdolrashidi has worked for the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB).

Early career Abdolrashidi started his career in the early 1960s, while still a teenager. It was then that he began to work for a radio station in Kerman. Following this, he joined the national radio network as a researcher, working for a weekly program on folklore. (at 2012) and is the author of hundreds of articles and essays. He is an amateur photographer and displays some of his works on the Internet.

Awards Abdolrashidi has received numerous awards for his work as a journalist. His major award is the Japanese Hoso Bunka Foundation top award for a Documentary called Hejran or Dislocation.This documentary is about the " Plights of Asian Immigrants". 'Hejran' reveals the plights of those immigrants who head for an unknown happy life, after leaving their homeland, members of families and their background. Reaching the new land with a new life, they find it quite different from what they imagined.