Nationality Iranian American Name Abbas Milani | Role Historian | |
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Institutions University of TehranNational University of IranUniversity of California, BerkeleyNotre Dame de Namur UniversityStanford University Alma mater University of California, BerkeleyUniversity of Hawaii Books The Persian Sphinx, Lost Wisdom: Rethinkin, The Myth of the Great Satan: A, Tales of Two Cities: A Persian, Encounters with modernity Similar People Amir‑Abbas Hoveyda, Bahram Moshiri, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Abbas Maroufi, Akbar Ganji | ||
Abbas milani of stanford university on his book the shah on charlie rose
Abbas Malekzadeh Milani (Persian: عباس ملکزاده میلانی; born 1949) is an Iranian-American historian and author. Milani is a visiting professor of Political Science and the director of the Iranian Studies program at Stanford University. He is also a research fellow and co-director of the Iran Democracy Project at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Milani has found evidence that Persian modernism dates back to more than 1000 years ago.
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- Abbas milani of stanford university on his book the shah on charlie rose
- The shah abbas milani
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Biography
Milani was born in Iran to a prosperous family and was sent to California when he was sixteen, graduating from Oakland Technical High School in 1966 after only one year of studies. Milani earned his B.A. in political science and economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1970 and his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Hawaii in 1974.
With his girlfriend Fereshteh, Milani returned to Iran to serve as an assistant professor of political science at the National University of Iran from 1975 to 1977. He lectured on Marxist themes veiled in metaphor but was jailed for two year as a political prisoner for "activities against the government". He was a research fellow at the Iranian Center for Social Research from 1977 to 1978. He was also an assistant professor of law and political science at the University of Tehran and a member of the board of directors of Tehran University's Center for International Studies from 1979 to 1986, but after the Iranian Revolution he was not allowed to publish or teach. With his son Hamid and his wife Fereshteh, he left Iran in 1986.
Abbas Milani was deemed a terrorist, arrested and later pardoned on Shah's Birthday https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1977TEHRAN09431_c.html Abbas's Milani's wife however was never arrested as it is indicated in this cable from the embassy https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1977TEHRAN08544_c.html
Returning to California, Milani was appointed professor of History and Political Science as well as chair of the department at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, south of San Francisco. He served as a research fellow at the Institute of International Studies at UC Berkeley. Milani became a Hoover Institution research fellow in 2001 and left Notre Dame de Namur for Stanford in 2002.
He is currently the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies at Stanford. He lives on campus with his second wife, Jean Nyland who is chair of Notre Dame de Namur's psychology department.