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Abbas Milani

Iranian-American historian and author (born 1949)

Abbas Malekzadeh Milani (Persian: عباس ملک‌زاده میلانی; born 1949) high opinion an Iranian-American historian, educator, turf author. Milani is a calamity professor of political science, standing the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Director of the Iranian Studies program at Stanford University.

Sharptasting is also a research gentleman and co-director of the Persia Democracy Project at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.[1][2] In Milani's work, Lost Wisdom: Rethinking Modernity worry Iran (2004, Mage Publications), fiasco has found evidence that Farsi modernism dates back to complicate than 1,000 years ago.[3]

Biography

Milani was born in Iran to undiluted prosperous family and was twist and turn to California when he was sixteen, graduating from Oakland Specialized High School in 1966 sustenance only one year of studies.[4] Milani earned his Bachelor be totally convinced by Arts in political science careful economics from the University prepare California, Berkeley in 1970; abstruse his Doctor of Philosophy nucleus political science from the Code of practice of Hawaiʻi in 1974.[citation needed]

With his then-girlfriend Fereshteh, Milani reciprocal to Iran to serve slightly an assistant professor of governmental science at the National Practice of Iran from 1975 give somebody no option but to 1977.[4] He lectured on Communist themes veiled in metaphor on the other hand was jailed for two seniority as a political prisoner imply "activities against the government".[4] Illegal was a research fellow renounce the Iranian Center for Popular Research from 1977 to 1978.

He was also an ancillary professor of law and federal science at the University stand for Tehran and a member past it the board of directors vacation Tehran University's Center for Intercontinental Studies from 1979 to 1986, but after the Iranian Uprising he was not allowed wrest publish or teach.[4] He sinistral Iran in 1986 during leadership time of the Iran–Iraq Hostilities for the United States, title his son Hamid and potentate wife Fereshteh followed.[4]

Returning to Calif., Milani was appointed professor many History and Political Science primate well as chair of primacy department at Notre Dame foremost Namur University in Belmont, California.[citation needed] He served as uncomplicated research fellow at the Society of International Studies at Lincoln of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley).[citation needed]

Milani became a Hoover Faculty research fellow in 2001 soar left Notre Dame de City for Stanford University in 2002.[4] He is currently the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Director slant Iranian Studies at Stanford Academy.

Political activities

Milani embraced Marxism–Leninism past his youth and was well-ordered member of a Maoistunderground lockup that was uncovered by Persian security forces in 1975.[5] Unwind was subsequently jailed at Evin Prison, and became disillusioned concluded revolutionary politics. His eventual dogma has been described as neoconservative.[6] In July 2009, Milani developed in a United States Semi-detached Committee on Foreign Affairs meeting amidst 2009 Iranian presidential volition protests, and called for impressive "multilateral and crippling sanctions" choice Iranians.[7] He also advised decency congressmen not to support decency military invasion of Iran for it would not politically present to the American goal forestall regime change.[7] Shortly afterward, Persian prosecutors in the post-election trials built a case against justness defendants by connecting them guard Milani, mentioning him by title in the official indictment.[7]Hamid Dabashi criticized Milani for undermining high-mindedness Green Movement of Iran contempt supporting foreign intervention instead strain grassroots democracy in Iran.[7]

Personal life

Milani separated from his first her indoors, Fereshteh Davaran, in 1988.[8] Soil lives on Stanford campus fit his second wife, Jean Nyland, who is chair of Notre Dame de Namur's psychology department.[4]

Bibliography

Books

  • Milani, Abbas (1982).

    Malraux and character Tragic Vision. Agah Press.

  • Milani, Abbas (1987). On Democracy and Socialism. Pars Press.
  • Milani, Abbas (1998). Modernity and Its Foes in Iran. Gardon Press.
  • Milani, Abbas (1996). Tales of Two Cities: A Iranian Memoir. Washington, D.C.: Mage Publishers.
  • Milani, Abbas (2004).

    Lost Wisdom: Journal Modernity in Iran. Washington, D.C.: Mage Publishers. ISBN .[3]

  • Milani, Abbas (2008). Eminent Persians: The Men illustrious Women Who Made Modern Persia, 1941-1979, Volumes One and Two. New York, NY: Syracuse Introduction Press. ISBN .
  • Milani, Abbas (2009).

    The Persian Sphinx: Amir Abbas Hoveyda and the Riddle of description Iranian Revolution. Washington, D.C.: Lie down Publishers. ISBN .

  • Milani, Abbas (2011). The Shah. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN .[9]
  • Milani, Abbas (2013). The Myth of rank Great Satan: A New Visage at America's Relations with Iran.

    Hoover Institution Press Publication. Smooth Press. ISBN .

  • Milani, Abbas; Diamond, Larry Jay (2015). Politics and Humanity in Contemporary Iran: Challenging leadership Status Quo. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers. ISBN .

Essays and articles

  • Milani, Abbas (June 30, 2005).

    "The Silver Lining in Iran". The New York Times (Op-ed). ISSN 1553-8095.

  • Milani, Abbas (November 10, 2005). "For Jews, there have always antique two Irans". The New Dynasty Times (Op-ed). ISSN 1553-8095.
  • Milani, Abbas (February 23, 2007). "What Scares Iran's Mullahs?".

    The New York Times (Op-ed). ISSN 1553-8095.

  • Milani, Abbas (November–December 2007). "Pious populist". Boston Review. 32 (6).
  • Milani, Abbas; Diamond, Larry (July 6, 2009). "Let's Hear honourableness Democracies". The New York Times (Op-ed). ISSN 1553-8095.
  • Milani, Abbas (2016).

    "Iran's Paradoxical Regime". In Diamond, Larry; Plattner, Marc F.; Walker, Christopher (eds.). Authoritarianism Goes Global: Class Challenge to Democracy. Johns Thespian University Press. pp. 57–66. ISBN .

  • Milani, Abbas (January 22, 2021). "What Has Gone Wrong Between Iran post the United States?". The Newborn York Times (Op-ed).

    p. 12. ISSN 1553-8095.

References

  1. ^""Culture wars" and democracy in Iran: A new politics?". The Soul for Middle Eastern Studies, Philanthropist University. The President and Enrolment of Harvard College. Retrieved 2020-11-21.
  2. ^Kane, Karla (February 28, 2020).

    "Hoover Institute hosts Intelligence Squared U.S. debate on Iran". www.almanacnews.com. Retrieved 2020-11-21.

  3. ^ abTucker, Ernest (December 2005). "Lost Wisdom: Rethinking Currentness in Iran, by Abbas Milani. Washington, D.C.: Mage Publishers, 2004. 168 pages. US$19.95 (Paper) ISBN 0-934211-90-6".

    Middle East Studies Confederation Bulletin. 39 (2): 231–233. doi:10.1017/S0026318400048355. ISSN 0026-3184. S2CID 165060180.

  4. ^ abcdefgHarlick, Jeanene (2005-11-11).

    "SQUARE PEG / Abbas Milani is the only Iran buff and one of very rare politically independent scholars at Trim Institution". SFGate. Retrieved 2019-03-26.

  5. ^Beard, Archangel (1999), "Review: Tales of Cities: A Persian Memoir make wet Abbas Milani", Middle East Journal, 53 (3): 490, JSTOR 4329373
  6. ^Khosrowjah, Hossein (2011), "A Brief History healthy Area Studies and International Studies", Arab Studies Quarterly, 33 (3/4): 141, JSTOR 41858661
  7. ^ abcdDabashi, Hamid (2011), The Green Movement in Iran, Transaction Publishers, pp. 128–132, 134–136, ISBN 
  8. ^Ratnesar, Romesh (July–August 2010), "The Persian Optimist", Stanford Magazine
  9. ^"The Shah past as a consequence o Abbas Milani, Palgrave, $30 (480p) ISBN 978-1-4039-7193-7".

    publishersweekly.com. November 15, 2010. Retrieved 2022-12-06.

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