Dr Omid Tofighian is a lecturer, translator, researcher and community advocate based at the American University of Cairo and University of Sydney. His work combines philosophy with interests in rhetoric, religion, popular culture, transnationalism, displacement, and discrimination. He contributes to community arts and cultural projects and works with asylum seekers, refugees and young people from Western Sydney.
He has published numerous book chapters and journal articles and is the author of "Myth and Philosophy in Platonic Dialogues". He has translated Behrouz Boochani's book, "No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison" and also a number of articles for Behrouz Boochani for The Guardian.