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Abbas Milani is the director of the Iran Studies Program at Stanford and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. Among his several books are Modernity and Its Foes in Iran (1998), Tales of Two Cities: A Persian Memoir (2006), and The Shah (2011); most recently, he has co-edited, with Larry Diamond, Culture and Politics in Contemporary Iran (2015). (January 2020)
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