Ali Akbar Mahdi is professor in the department of sociology and anthropology at Ohio Wesleyan University. Among his books are Sociology in Iran (1992, with A Lahsaeizadeh), and Iranian Culture, Civil Society, and Concern for Democracy (1998). His homepage is here.
Ali Akbar Mahdi is <a href=http://go.owu.edu/~social/faculty%20bios/mahdi-bio.htm target=_blank>professor</a> in the department of sociology and anthropology at Ohio Wesleyan University. Among his boo