Majid Labbaf KhaneikiMajid Labbaf Kheneiki was born in 1975 in Mashhad, northeast of Iran. He received his bachelor degree in agricultural engineering, and then he continued his study in human geography at University of Tehran. He holds a PhD in human geography from Univrsity of Tehran. From 1998 to 2005, heworkedasaresearcherfortheAmirkabirResearchInstituteandtheIranian Academic Center for Education, Culture & Research (ACECR). From 2005, he has been working as a senior expert and researcher for the International Center on Qanats and Historic Hydraulic Structures, a UNESCO Category 2 center. He has authored and co-authored the books Qanat Knowledge, Qanat Tourism, Qanats of Qasem Abad and Emamiyeh, Qanat in its Cradle, Water Division Systems in Iran, Water and Irrigation Techniques in Ancient Iran, Qanats of Taft, Qanat of Gonabad as a Myth, and Qanats of Bam from Technical and Engineering Point of View. Tens of his articles have appeared in Urban Tourism Journal (University of Tehran), Geographical Researches Journal, Mashhad University Journal, and so on. Read More Read Less