I have worked with marginalized people, especially newcomers, since 1980. I work as a Trauma Counsellor/Policy Analyst and Researcher with the Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture. I also run the Zagros Foundation as a charitable cultural and social agency. I am a Pen Canada, The Writers Union of Canada, and Academia member. The Canada Council of the Arts has recognized me as a literary writer. I am also the editor of the First Light, the bi-annual journal of the CCVT. Before working with the CCVT, I was the director of the Jesuit Refugee Service-Canada. I have been the editor of Refugee Update and the Chair of the Board of Culturelink, and a Board member of the Inter-Church Committee for Refugees, the Vigil Toronto, and the Canadian Immigrant and Refugee Counseling Service. I am one of the founding members of the Canadian Centre for International Justice (CCIJ). I have lectured on torture and trauma in various colleges and universities in and outside Canada. I have served as a part-time professor of immigration, trauma, diversity, and social policy at Seneca College in Toronto. I am the author of books such as Political Economy of Oil (1986), Torture in the Age of Fear (2005), Religions and the Cruel Return of Gods (2012), Crimes and Punishment in Islam (2014), and The Silence of Fairy (2018). In my mission for refugee protection, I have traveled to different countries, including USA, Mexico, Rwanda, Switzerland, Austria, Australia, Nigeria, Uganda, Thailand, India, and Cyprus.
