Journalist and media correspondent Seyed Iman Ziabari was selected as one of the top 35 exemplary non-commissioned officers of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the National Festival of Young Soldiers.
Probationary Ensign Seyed Iman Ziabari, writing under the pen name Kourosh Ziabari, is attending his military service in the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy in the northern city of Rasht.
Kourosh Ziabari graduated from the University of Guilan in 2012 with a bachelors’ degree in English Language and Literature. After his graduation, he was recruited for the military service, and after spending two months of training, he was sent to the Naval Specialties Training Commandant’s English Language Training School.
As a journalist and media correspondent, he has written more than 500 English articles for such newspapers, magazines and websites as Iran Review, Foreign Policy Journal (USA), Global Research (Canada), Your Middle East (Sweden), The Nation (Pakistan), Turkish Weekly Journal, International Policy Digest, Al-Arabiya, Counter Currents (India), Strategic Culture Foundation (Russia), Counter Punch, Istanbul Literary Review, American Free Press, Online Opinion (Australia), Ovi Magazine (Finland), Baltimore Chronicle, Compass Culture (Belgium), Asian EFL Journal, Foreign Policy in Focus and Media Monitors.
Ziabari has conducted some 350 interviews with prominent world leaders, politicians, diplomats, academicians, university professors, scientists, public intellectuals, Nobel Prize laureates, authors and media personalities.
Some of his interviewees include Noam Chomsky, Peter Singer, Massimo D’Alema, Vaira Vike-Freiberga, Mario Soares, Vicente Fox, Sami Yusuf, Carl Bildt, Hans Blix, Ana Palacio, Didier Reynders, Massimo Bray, John W. Ashe, Archbishop Theodore McCarrick, Zygmunt Bauman, Glenn Greenwald, Francis Boyle, Henry Giroux, Edmund Phelps, Olli Heinonen, Dave Lindorff, Viviane Reding, Amb. Frank Wisner, Juan Cole, Kristalina Georgieva, James Petras, Thomas R. Pickering, John Mearsheimer, Michael Parenti, Lawrence Wilkerson, Ivaylo Kalfin, Pierre Goldschmidt and Mike Gravel.
In 2009, he was a member of the student assembly at the International Student Energy Summit in Calgary, Canada. His papers had been accepted at the 2009 World Culture Forum in Italy and the 2010 International Youth Leadership Conference in Czech Republic.
Kourosh Ziabari has so far authored three books and has one book chapter in the anthology “Media, Power, and Politics in the Digital Age: The 2009 Presidential Election Uprising in Iran” edited by Prof. Yahya Kamalipour, published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2010.