Manoucher Parvin منوچهر پروین

MANOUCHER PARVIN, widely regarded as a polymath, has published novels, poems, short-stories, and numerous works in various fields of sciences. His novels Cry for my Revolution, Iran; and Avicenna and I: The Journey of Spirits– now reprinted–and the novel-in-verse, Dardedel: Rumi, Hafez, and Love in New York have been acclaimed by reviewers.
He has been active all his adult life for causes such as human rights, the environment, and democracy. Professor Parvin has served as a television and radio commentator in th United States and abroad and has lectured around the world. He is active in various sports, is a chess addict and not such a bad cook to boot!
The author has been lucky to have become prepared for writing his novel Alethophobia by an overall unique experience in the American educational system. This includes several years of teaching at Columbia University; Hunter College in New York City; Fordham University; a very big State University in Ohio, the University of Akron and Emory University. The author has also taught at Barnard School for Boys in the Bronx, and, as a single parent nursed his son, now Dr. Mark Parvin, through the suburban public school system in Ohio.