User:Kourosh ziabari
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Kourosh Ziabari (Persian: کوروش ضیابری) is a 1991 Iranian born journalist, blogger and writer. His birthplace is Rasht, located in northern Iranian province of Guilan from a religious, cultural family, both his father and mother journalists.
He started learning English as a foreign language when he was 8 years of age; thereafter he learnt the essentials of journalism from his parents and became a junior journalist as columnist in local magazines of Guilan. Kourosh's first book has been published when he was 11, a simple translation from English into Persian, named "A house on the hill" written by Elizabeth Laird.
During his college times, Kourosh tried to learn Arabic and Italian languages, in addition to a little Deutsch and Turkish fluency he gained.
Passing 8 years of his journalistic experience, over than 200 pieces of articles, interviews, columns and blog posts have been published by Kourosh, putting him into the rank of highly active Persian journalists. His second book also has been published in 2007, when he dispatched a collection of his interviews with 7 contemporary authors of Iranian new generation of literature, called the book "7+1".
Along with college studies and working for national newspapers, he used to manage several sections in Daneshmand scientific magazine such as "Scientific websurf", furthermore, he wrote partly articles and reports for non-Iranian newspapers and websites.
As a graphic designer he also designed websites, banners and graphical ads for several occasions, the announcement poster of national congress of Iranian mystic poet Mevlana's 800th birth anniversary the most predominant of them. He currently manages the Persian project of "Helloyahoomail.net", a national Iranian movement against the immoral Yahoo removal of Iran's name from its countries list.
His struggles and efforts to counter the American-controlled Persian Gulf renaming project were also considerable, pushing cyber pressure on Google Earth, National Geographic and other media counterfeiting the historical name.
