The poems, politics, true stories, and thoughts that occur when different cultures collide. My name is Akbar Fakhar. This is a story about cultural differences, human nature, family, and the many and varied experiences of a young man who traveled to America from Persia (Iran) in 1974. For me, the magnitude of the journey from Persia to America was like time-traveling from the Ice Age to the twentieth century-suddenly, I woke up in a whole new world.