Sajjad Elmi Sarai is a graduate of Library and Information Sciences from Allameh Tabatabai University and a sociology student at Hajat Tappeh University in Izmir, Turkey. He is a former member of the Hamshahri newspaper's cultural service, a member of the Association for Solidarity with Refugees and Asylum Seekers (SGDD-ASAM) in Turkey, and a former administrative assistant of the association in the Aegean region.