Ali Akbar Abdolrashidi (Persian: علی‌اکبر عبدالرشیدی; born 9 July 1949 in Kerman) is an Iranian intellectual, journalist,[1] writer, traveler, television host, translator, and university lecturer.

[2] 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.

[4] 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.

[4] Abdolrashidi has visited 40 countries and written and translated a total of twenty books,[5][6][7] (at 2012) and is the author of hundreds of articles[8] and essays.

'Hejran' reveals the plights of those immigrants who head for an unknown happy life, after leaving their homeland, members of families and their background.