Ali Akbar Abdolrashidi
{{short description|Iranian journalist, translator and writer (born 1949)}}
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Ali Akbar Abdolrashidi (Persian: علیاکبر عبدالرشیدی; born 9 July 1949 in Kerman) is an Iranian intellectual, journalist,{{cite news |first=Ladan M. |last=Sadeghioon |title=Experts Discussed Role of Media in Tourism Development |url=http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=1&id=1828 |work=Iranian Cultural Heritage News Agency |date=5 March 2007 |accessdate=12 July 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071014134814/http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=1&id=1828 |archive-date=14 October 2007 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }} writer, traveler, television host, translator, and university lecturer.{{cite news |script-title=fa:عبدالرشیدی: نمایشگاه کافی نیست |url=http://www.aftabnews.ir/vdcgux9akz9tu.html |work=Aftab News |date=6 May 2008 |accessdate=12 July 2008 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080712100714/http://www.aftabnews.ir/vdcgux9akz9tu.html |archivedate=12 July 2008 |url-status=dead |language=fa |df=dmy-all }} 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.freewebs.com/abdolrashidi/interviews.htm |title=TV Interviews |work=Ali Akbar Abdolrashidi official website |accessdate=15 July 2008}} For most of his career, Abdolrashidi has worked for the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB).{{cite web |url=http://www.freewebs.com/abdolrashidi/biography.htm |title=Biography |work=Official website |accessdate=15 July 2008}}
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.
Journalism
On becoming competent in English, he joined the news and current-affairs department and worked as a translator of newswires. After seven years, he became the London-based correspondent of the IRIB in 1980. A year later, however, he returned to Iran at the IRIB headquarters in Tehran, where he headed the foreign news desk and travelled the world to cover current events in the United Nations, OPEC, and other international organizations.
In 1984, Abdolrashidi returned to London as the British and European correspondent. He covered many historic events such as the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the formation of the European Union.
Works
Abdolrashidi has visited 40 countries and written and translated a total of twenty books,{{cite web|author=Behnegarsoft.com |url=http://www.ibna.ir/vdcfy1dyew6d0va.r7iw.html |title=Iran Book News Agency |publisher=Ibna.ir |date= |accessdate=24 September 2013}}{{cite web|author=Behnegarsoft.com |url=http://www.ibna.ir/prtd5909.yt0xf6me2y.html |title=Iran Book News Agency |publisher=Ibna.ir |date= |accessdate=24 September 2013}}{{cite web|url=http://www.abebooks.com/book-search/author/abdolrashidi-a-a/ |title=Abebooks |publisher=Abebooks |date= |accessdate=24 September 2013}} (at 2012) and is the author of hundreds of articles{{cite web|url=http://www.iranreview.org/cms/searchResult.aspx?query=abdolrashidi |title=Iranreview |publisher=Iranreview |date= |accessdate=24 September 2013}} and essays.{{cite web |url=http://abdolrashidi.blogspot.com/2005/01/blog-post_01.html |title=Biography |work=Official website |accessdate=15 July 2008|language=fa}}
He is an amateur photographer and displays some of his works on the Internet.{{cite web|url=http://www.trekearth.com/members/abdolrashidi/ |title=Trekearth |publisher=Trekearth |date= |accessdate=24 September 2013}}
Awards
Abdolrashidi has received numerous awards for his work as a journalist.{{cite web |url=http://www.hbf.or.jp/about/pickup/compe/3.html |script-title=ja:企画選奨・第3回 |work=Hoso Bunka Foundation |accessdate=25 July 2008|language=ja}} 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.idfa.nl/industry/tags/project.aspx?id=5151a6cb-0f3f-4e1f-8433-b8c3409c1213 |title=International Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam |publisher=Idfa.nl |accessdate=24 September 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928034433/http://www.idfa.nl/industry/tags/project.aspx?id=5151a6cb-0f3f-4e1f-8433-b8c3409c1213 |archive-date=28 September 2013 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}
{{cite web |url=http://www.tebyan.net/Literature_Art/Cinema/IranCinema/Festivals/2003/10/14/3890.html |script-title=fa:برندگان چهارمین جشنواره سیما |accessdate=25 July 2008 |date=14 October 2003 |work=Tebyan.net|language=fa}}{{cite web |url=http://www.freewebs.com/abdolrashidi/awards.htm |title=Awards |work=Official website |accessdate=25 July 2008}}
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Category:People from Kerman province
Category:Iranian radio and television presenters
Category:Faculty of Letters and Humanities of the University of Tehran alumni