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Abbas Milani, an expert in U.S./Iran relations, and Iranian cultural, political, and security issues, is Director of the Iranian Studies Program at Stanford University and a visiting professor in the department of political science. In addition, Dr. Milani is a research fellow and co-director of the Iran Democracy Project at the Hoover Institution. Previously, he was a professor of history and political science and chair of the department at Notre Dame de Namur University, and a research fellow at the Institute of International Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Milani has also served as an assistant professor on the faculty of law and political science at Tehran University and a member of the board of directors of Tehran University's Center for International Studies from 1979 to 1987. He was a research fellow at the Iranian Center for Social Research from 1977 to 1978, and an assistant professor at the National University of Iran from 1975 to 1977.
Dr. Milani is the author of The Persian Sphinx: Amir Abbas Hoveyda and the Riddle of the Iranian Revolution (Mage, 2000); Modernity and Its Foes in Iran (Gardon Press, 1998); Tales of Two Cities: A Persian Memoir (Mage, 1996); On Democracy and Socialism, a collection of articles co-authored with Faramarz Tabrizi (Pars Press, 1987); Malraux and the Tragic Vision (Agah Press, 1982); and Lost Wisdom: Rethinking Persian Modernity in Iran (Mage 2004). His latest book is King of Shadows: Essays on Iran's Encounter with Modernity, Ketab Corp., Los Angeles, CA., Spring 2005-Persian text published in the U.S.
Dr. Milani has also translated numerous books and articles into Persian and English, and his articles have been published in journals, magazines, and newspapers including the Encyclopedia Iranica, the Hoover Digest, Iranshenasi, the Journal of the Middle East, Middle East Journal, the New York Review of Books, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Times Literary Supplement. He has been interviewed for radio and television, appearing on the BBC, CNN, KQED, Radio France, Radio Farda, Radio Free Europe, Radio and Television of Iran, and Voice of America.
He received his BA in political science and economics from the University of California at Berkeley and his PhD in political science from the University of Hawaii, and is a member of the American Association of Political Science, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and the Association of Iranian Studies