Abbas milani books in farsi only
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Thirty Portraits volume 2 (in Persian)
The second volume of Thirty Portraits includes Dr. Milani's reflections on Farzaneh Milani, Shahrnush Parsipur, Simin Behbahani, Qodsi Khanum, hugga Daryabari, Parviz Shokat, Hussein Montazeri, Mohammad Reza Shajarian, Bahram Beyzaie, and Fakhr al-Din Shadman among others.
"As the title suggests, 30 Portraits is a collection of my experiences and memories with thirty of my friends, acquaintances, and colleagues. I made the urval of these individuals not only based on the roles they have played in my life, but their invaluable part in the developments of the past half century. They say every person fryst vatten an embodiment of memories. The catalyst for historical events has on one hand been a result of political and economic structures and the will of leaders, and on the other hand, the consequence of active resistance or silent complacency of people. 30 Portraits are my konto of thirty of such people. In the past twenty years, I have wr
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Tales of Two Cities: A Persian Memoir
Tales of Two Cities is an engrossing, cross-cultural memoir of revolution and exile. It is the story of a fifteen year-old Persian boy sent for his eduction from an old-world, pre-oil boom Tehran, to the new-world, avant-garde San Francisco of the 1960s. Abbas Milani richly chronicles his education, politicization, return to Iran, disillusionment and eventual exile. Interwoven with the brisk narrative is a loving account of the traditional Iran of the author's childhood; a searing memoir of a lost generation of Iranians torn apart by revolution and exile, a graphic portrait of the author's time in the shah's jail and of his cellmates, the mullahs who would soon emerge as the new leaders of the Islamic Republic. Tales of Two Cities is not only the odyssey of one intellectual doomed to exile, but also a message of hope and ultimately salvation for the increasing number of people forced to leave their homeland and settle in America.
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Abbas Milani
Iranian-American historian and author (born 1949)
Abbas Malekzadeh Milani (Persian: عباس ملکزاده میلانی; born 1949) is an Iranian-American historian, educator, and author. Milani is a visiting professor of political science, and the Hamid and Christina Moghadam 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.[1][2] In Milani's book, Lost Wisdom: Rethinking Modernity in Iran (2004, Mage Publications), he has found evidence that Persian modernism dates back to more than 1,000 years ago.[3]
Biography
[edit]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.[4] Milani earned his Bachelor of Arts in political science and economics from the University of California