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)
