Omid Tofighian (Persian: امید توفیقیان) is an Iranian-Australian philosopher and Honorary Research Associate at the University of Sydney.
He is known for his research on ancient Greek philosophy and his translation of the award-winning book by Kurdish-Iranian asylum seeker Behrouz Boochani, No Friend But the Mountains from Persian into English.
As of 2021[update] Tofighian works as a Honorary Research Associate for the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sydney.
Tofighian's translated asylum seeker Behrouz Boochani's No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison, which was sent to him one WhatsApp message at a time, from Persian to English, leading to its publication in 2018.
[5][6][7][8] Writing about the process of working with Boochani on the translation (which took five years[9]), Tofighian wrote:[10] Behrouz and I had a mutual understanding; in fact, the translation team embodied a kind of collective intention or shared agency.