Named after his grandfather the Sepahdar Iran's prime minister in 1920, Fatollah Akbar was born in Tehran, Iran in 1940. He currently resides and works in the Washington DC area. He is fluent in Persian, English, Russian, German and French.

"In times like these, every effort made to elucidate a facet of Iran's culture is both patriotic and worthy of praise..." -- M J Mahjoub, University of California, Berkeley.