Ali Ashraf Darvishian (born in 1941 in Kermanshah) is a Kurdish ethnic Iranian story writer and scholar. The Kurds are an ethnic group who consider themselves to be indigenous to a region often referred to as Kurdistan, an area which includes adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. ...

Ali Ashraf Darvishian is currently in Australia as a guest of the Iranian Centre for Democracy and will be presenting a number of lectures on a broad range of social and cultural issues.