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Arash Shooshtari Rezvani

Lifein its different forms

More than I have sought a title, I have sought to experience life in its different forms — writing, learning, creating, travelling, and returning again to the word.
Three-window graphic portrait of Arash in left profile, frontal three-quarter view, and right profile, wearing round glasses and a two-tone woven hat.
Everything begins, for me, with the word. Writing has been one of the oldest companions of my life. From books and articles to poetry.

Six of the published books

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Book cover: a Red Crescent motorcycle responder in a helmet, before a blurred incident scene of ambulances and rescuers.
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The Motorcycle First Responder

A scientific and practical guide to rapid response by motorcycle at incident scenes

In the moments when seconds decide an outcome, there are people who open the road — not for themselves, but for the lives of others.

A motorcycle first responder is not merely a fast vehicle; he is a link between the human being, knowledge, and responsibility.

This book is an account of the skills, the decisions and the pressures running through every mission: from the first look at the scene to the quiet ride back once it is over.

An account of relief work that gives speed its meaning through safety, power through ethics, and duty through humanity.

Six ways

Each one has an account of its own and repeats none of the others — but they all begin in the same place, and come back to it.

  1. Arash, in a white shirt, writing with a pen in an open notebook on a desk in raking window light.
    01

    Books

    Of what has been published, three authored, one co-authored and two translated are here. Most of them are about the same thing I teach.

  2. Arash in a two-tone woven hat, round glasses and a white shirt, walking with his head bowed through a bare room, window light falling on the wall beside him.
    02

    Poetry

    Where I am no longer meant to teach anything or explain anything — about love, about people, the road and solitude.

  3. Unbranded multi-view ink illustration of an adventure-touring motorcycle on a white ground.
    03

    Teaching

    Experience gathered on the road and written down in the books is handed on here — from learners who have only just set out on this path, to the instructors who will themselves go on to teach others.

  4. Two adventure motorcycles and their riders stopped at a guardrail overlook under a heavy dusk sky.
    04

    Lived experience

    By motorcycle I have come to know Iran through its roads — from cities and villages to mountain and desert. Some things must be lived before they can be understood.

  5. Overhead still life of a vintage camera, a blank spiral notebook, round glasses, vinyl records and small photographic prints on a blue-and-cream textile.
    05

    The same way of looking

    Naghashi-khat (calligraphy-painting), photography and music. They are other forms of the same way of looking — the same story, this time in line, colour, image and sound.

  6. Arash, in a two-tone woven hat, round glasses and a white shirt, seated at a dark desk with one hand resting on a blank sheet of paper.
    06

    Notes

    What has not yet reached a book or a poem.

Four decades, one country

Nine threads of work, and none of them replaced another — writing, teaching, the camera, the rock, the road. The map is the country they were made in; the experience page holds each of them in full.

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