Moji Agha (Mojtaba Aghamohammadi) is a respected Iranian-American community leader, peace and human rights activist, and advocate of genuine interfaith and intercultural dialogue, whose diverse activities in the past 2-3 decades, namely teaching and research (cultural psychology and culture-analysis), art (bilingual poet, essayist, translator, and writer), and peace-building (cross-cultural dialogue and conflict resolution) are among the accomplishments noted in the first edition of "Who is Who of Iranians in America," published by the Persian Cultural Foundation.

In addition to teaching for years in American universities (California State University, Hayward, U. of Phoenix, and the U. of Arizona), he has founded numerous non-profit organizations and projects (please see www.interfaithful.org), the latest of which is the Project on Culture and Conflict (and its adjunct project, the "Iran Peace Project") at the College of Humanities, University of Arizona in Tucson.

Moji's citizen mediation and dialogue project to help heal the U.S.-Iran conflict has been praised by many peace and social justice groups in the U.S.

He has two Masters Degrees and nearly a Ph.D. in cross-cultural psychology. As a doctoral candidate, he is in the latest stages of writing his dissertation about the foundations of an indigenous psychology for the Iranian and related Middle Eastern cultures.

Moji's book [in Persian] as to how to quit smoking naturally, using self-hypnosis, was published in his city of birth, Tehran, Iran, in 2005.

He has assisted numerous organizations [including the Red Cross] with organizational development, conflict resolution, culture-analysis, "troubleshooting," and crisis consultation.

He is most acutely concerned about the fragile state of our Earth's environment and the very survival of life. Please see: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/NOBELife/petition.html

Moji is fully bilingual/bicultural and has been translating back and forth between English and Persian, texts as complicated as Sufi poetry. He has been writing poetry, short stories, and essays both in English and Persian for years. He is a feature writer at the popular on-line magazine, the Iranian.com (www.iranian.com/MojiAgha/index) and has been published on various other Internet sites, including www.counterpunch.org, and www.payvand.com.

In 2001 he wrote, directed and staged a full-length comedy play called "Joojeh Haji Firooz in the Year 2222" (about the 5000-year-old traditions of Nowruz, the Iranian New Year--celebration of spring) at the University of Arizona, with the assistance of the acclaimed Arizona Theater company.

Moji's peace, civil society, and cross-cultural leadership activities over the years have been covered widely by the media in the U.S. (TV--CNN, for example--, radio--NPR, for example--, and print--many major U.S. newspapers).

Topics covered

• - Peace-building and Conflict Resolution
• - Iran
• - Political and Spiritual Islam
• - Culture-analysis and Interfaith Dialogue
• - Cross-cultural Communication
• - Climate Change and Culture