Raised in Iran, Abbas Milani was sent to be educated in California in the 1960s. He became politically active and in 1974 received a PhD in Political Science. He returned to Tehran and taught at the National University but was imprisoned by the Pahlavi regime in 1977. After the revolution he became a professor at Tehran University, but by 1986 his utopian illusions had been shattered and he emigrated to the United States. Dr. Milani is the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Director of the Iranian Studies Program at Stanford University and co-director of the Iran Democracy Project at the Hoover Institution. His works from Mage include, Tales of Two Cities: A Persian Memoir, The Persian Sphinx: Amir-Abbas Hoveyda and the Riddle of the Iranian Revolution, Lost Wisdom: Rethinking Modernity in Iran, and a translation of Houshang Golshiri's King of the Benighted. His books published by others include: The Shah; Eminent Persians: The Men and Women Who Made Modern Iran, 1941-1979 (2 Volumes); The Myth of the Great Satan: A New Look at America’s Relations with Iran; A Window into Modern Iran: The Ardeshir Zahedi Papers at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives – A Selection
