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Abbas Mehrabian

Abbas Mehrabian

Delayed but devoted: on a train towards Abgoosht

For three straight hours, I have been staring at a barely visible fence and a couple of unattended trees separating a run-down parking lot…

5 min readNov 18, 2023

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Delayed but devoted: on a train towards Abgoosht

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Abbas Mehrabian

Love your neighbour as yourself

“Are you any good with computers?” asked the lady who’d knocked on my door. To take part in a photography competition, she had to compile…

2 min readMay 26, 2021

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Love your neighbour as yourself

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Abbas Mehrabian

Why I am studying journalism

I received a PhD in mathematics and then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at three universities for five years. Now, I am taking a…

4 min readSep 6, 2020

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Why I am studying journalism

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Abbas Mehrabian

Memoir: The test of love, December 2013

I am standing next to my girlfriend, wrapping my arms around her shoulder and pulling her towards myself. Her left shoulder touches my…

2 min readSep 6, 2020

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Memoir: Visiting Australia, 2013

On a sunny afternoon in August 2012, I entered my supervisor’s office at the University of Waterloo in Canada. He greeted me, then got up…

5 min readSep 5, 2020

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Memoir: Visiting Australia, 2013

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Abbas Mehrabian

Memoir: The grand move, September 2011

After two years of living in an apartment in Waterloo, my roommate and I decided to move to a new place. We found a third roommate and a…

3 min readSep 5, 2020

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Memoir: The grand move, September 2011

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Abbas Mehrabian

2009: Immigrating to Canada

In September 2009, I moved from Tehran, Iran, to Waterloo, Canada, to start a graduate program at the University of Waterloo. I was 23 and…

3 min readSep 5, 2020

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2009: Immigrating to Canada

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Abbas Mehrabian

Abbas Mehrabian

A freelance journalist and a Google DeepMind AI researcher, an Iranian-Canadian living in Montreal with a journalism degree from Concordia University.

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