Omid Tofighian
Omid Tofighian is an Iranian‑Australian philosopher and an Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. He studies ancient Greek philosophy and translates important works between Persian and English. He translated Behrouz Boochani’s No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison from Persian into English; the translation took five years and was published in 2018. It won major Australian prizes, including the Victorian Prize for Literature and the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Nonfiction in 2019.
Education and career: He earned a combined honours degree in philosophy and religious studies at the University of Sydney and a PhD from Leiden University in 2010. His PhD thesis was Myth and philosophy on stage in Platonic dialogues, supervised by Frans de Haas. He has taught at Abu Dhabi University, been a visiting scholar at KU Leuven, and worked as an assistant professor at the American University in Cairo. He is currently an Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. He is also a member of Iran Academia and leads the Why Is My Curriculum White? Australasia campaign. He is an activist for asylum seekers and refugees in Australia and writes on Greek philosophy and mythology with an interdisciplinary approach.
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