Formerly a commentator for The Times and the BBC on international affairs, Hazhir Teimourian now writes books of a philosophical nature, with an MA in philosophy from the Uiversity of Buckingham obtained under his late friend Professor Sir Roger Scruton. He is especially thrilled to have been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. Teimourian was born into the Yarsan religion of Kurdish western Iran and was educated there in classical Persian and Arabic. At the age of nineteen, he came to England to study science and read for a degree in chemistry, but did not complete the course. Instead, he fell under the infuence of analytical Anglophone philosophers and drifted into the Persian Section of the BBC External Services, now the World Service. In 1980, he was invited by The Times to join it as a writer specialising in the Middle East, eventually broadening out to become a columnist and commentator in various fields. During the crisis of the eviction of Iraq from Kuwait in 1991, he re-joined the BBC on a temporary basis as a commentator attached to televison news. During later wars and crises, he contributed regularly to most of the main broadcasters of the Anglophone world, from ABC in Australia to CBC and CBS in North America. His Biography of Omar Khayyām (the eleventh century Persian free-thinker, mathematician and poet) was published in Britain in November 2007 and has been translated into several languages. His book, The Consolations of Autumn: Sages in Hard Times, which followed a BBC Radio 4 programme entitled Something Undertood, was published in 2015. A new book, The Ultimate Question: Towards a new god of the philosophers in a godless Universe, will be published next year (2021). Two more books are forthcoming in 2023. One argues that we need a sacred centre to our lives, now that most of us have lost God irreversibly.