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Amin Ghazaei is an Iranian writer and translator who works for refugees and human rights issues. He was an activist of the leftist student movement in Iran and a writer and journalist with a broad curriculum of articles in different Iranian journals. He is accepted as one of Iran’s prominent theoreticians in the fields of philosophy and feminism, where he has written and translated an acknowledged portfolio of books and papers. In 2014, he graduated from the University of Amsterdam in general sociology (Master). In 2016 he started a project called “New Ways for Newcomers” in Germany. The goal was to teach human rights to refugees and asylum seekers. Now, he is back to Amsterdam to run the project in the Netherlands. Amin is one of the presenters in the Human Rights Academy, organised by HIA and Amnesty International.