Farshid DelshadFarshid Delshad (born 1972) has a Master of Arts in Iranian and Semitic philology from Iran. He earned his first PhD in Caucasian and Slavic Studies from Tbilisi State University in Georgia. Later, he received a second Masters in "German as a Foreignand Second Language Acquisition" with a minor in "Indo-European Linguistics". He also received a PhD in Historical Comparative Linguistics from the German University of Friedrich-Schiller. Farshid has been teaching languages and cultures of the Middle East since 1994 in Iran, Georgia, Russia, Germany, France, and Switzerland. His focus includes Contrastive and Historical Linguistics and Minority Research in Islamic countries. He is currently working in Germany and in the United States as an associate scholar for Languages and Cultures of the Muslim World. Farshid is the author of several published chrestomathies and readers in Persian as a Foreign Language. Read More Read Less