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About Abbas Milani

Abbas Milani is the Hamid and Christina Moghadam director of Iranian studies at Stanford University, where he is also a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. His His books include Tales of Two Cities: a Persian memoir (1996), The Persian Sphinx: Amir Abbas Hoveyda and the riddle of the Iranian Revolution (2000), and Lost Wisdom: rethinking modernity in Iran (2004). Abbas Milani's most recent book is the two-volume Eminent Persians: The Men and Women who Made Modern Iran, 1941-1979 (Syracuse University Press, 2008)

Articles by Abbas Milani

Monday 9th February

Iran’s Islamic revolution: three paradoxes

Abbas Milani, 9 February 2009

Iran's century-old democratic heritage is a key to the future of its current theocratic state

Monday 27th June

Iran's conservative triumph

Trita Parsi, Roshanak Ameli-Tehrani, Ramin Jahanbegloo, Nader Entessar, Hamid Zanganeh, Bahram Rajaee, Bahman Kalbasi, and Abbas Milani, 27 June 2005

Iran’s people have elected religious hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by a large margin over ex-president Hashemi Rafsanjani. Whose victory is it, whose defeat? Iranian democrats assess their new predicament, and discuss what to do now.