User:Mehdi Kabul/sandbox

Born       8 August 1967 Nationality New Zealand & Iran Occupation Architectural Designer Father     Hassan Kabul (dad-deceased 1993) Mother     Zahra Pashmi Kabul (mum) Website    kabulsuperblocks.com

Mehdi Kabul (born 8 August 1967) is a New Zealand architectural designer, urbanist and founder of Kabul Superblocks with an office in Auckland.

Early life and career Kabul, Mehdi is the son of the Iranian Businessman, Hassan Kabul (Irani Seth) from Bombay, India, who migrated from Yazd, Iran to Bombay in 1944 during WWII and passed away in Bombay.

Already at the age of 16 he was working at his dad's business as Managing Partner for Kabul Trading Company in Mahalaxmi, Bombay and quit formal education after College (Second Year Junior College). At the age of 25, he closed the wheat flour trading and transport company, and migrated to Iran preceeding the Babri Masjid Communal Bombay Riots of December 1992.

Mehdi studied the persian language for a semester at Nehzat Savad Amozi (government funded night school) in Iran while working during the day.