A social psychologist, currently an Emeritus Professor of the University of North Texas, Denton. Has published several books and numerous articles in professional journals.
His latest book, The Good Side of the River: Stories of Tradition, Social Change, and Cultural Adaptation, is an auto-ethnographic memoir, taking the reader through seven decades of transformation, from an ancient culture in Iran grappling with rapid sociopolitical changes to a new world across the ocean, where he becomes an immigrant in the U.S.
A free copy of the E-pub is available at https://archive.org/details/the-good-side-of-the-river (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International).