Cyrus Farivar is an Iranian-American freelance technology journalist, radio producer and author currently living in the city of Bonn, Germany.

He is the science and technology editor at Deutsche Welle English and is the host of DW’s weekly internationally-syndicated radio program “Spectrum.”

Previously, he has lived in Oakland (California, USA), Lyon (France), New York (USA), Saint-Louis (Senegal), Melbourne (Australia), Berkeley (California, USA) and in a small village 20 km from Geneva (Switzerland). He was born and raised in Santa Monica (California, USA).

His book, The Internet of Elsewhere – about the history and effects of the Internet on different countries around the world, including Senegal, Iran, Estonia and South Korea – was published by Rutgers University Press in April 2011.

He reports for National Public Radio, The World (WGBH/PRI/BBC), and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

He also freelances for The Economist, Foreign Policy, Slate, The New York Times, Popular Mechanics, and Wired.

In addition, he has done radio reporting for the BBC and Latino USA and has written for Eating Well, Popular Science, Tehran Bureau, Tom’s Guide, Alaska Airlines Magazine, Communications of the ACM, San Francisco, PC Magazine, PC World, Macworld, MuniWireless, Mobile, Playlist, Oakland, Business 2.0, The San Mateo Daily Journal, MacAddict, The Age (Australia), The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Daily Californian, the UC Berkeley independent student newspaper.

He has a B.A. in Political Economy from the University of California, Berkeley and a M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

He’s also survived three VfDs on Wikipedia. However, on a 4th VfD attempt in February 2007, he was, in fact, deleted. He’s still waiting for someone to add him back.