Iraj has lived in Iran, Germany, and the United States. In spring 2007, he was a Fulbright Fellow in Tunisia. Among his publications are Muslims and American Popular Culture (Praeger, February 2014) and Historic Engagements with Occidental Cultures, Religions, Powers (Palgrave MacMillan, October 2014), both of which he edited with Anne Richards. Modern Iranian poems he translated with his father, Parviz Omidvar, have appeared in several literary journals in the United States and abroad. Iraj and his father are currently working on Parviz’s memoir.