#  “Culture wars” and democracy in Iran: A new politics? 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **April 3, 2015** 

 01:15PM - 03:00PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall**  



 

 



 

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   ![Abbas Milani](/sites/g/files/omnuum9116/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/cmes/files/milani-250px.png?itok=2AxOCgNe) 

 

The First Annual Iranian Gala, organized by The Center of Middle Eastern Studies, the Harvard College Iranian Association, and Harvard Law School Middle East Law Students Association, presents a public talk by**Abbas Milani**  
Hamid & Christina Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies at Stanford University and Co-Director of the Iran Democracy Project at Hoover Institution

Abbas Milani is the Director of the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies, co-director of the Iran Democracy Project and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. His expertise is U.S.-Iran relations as well as Iranian cultural, political, and security issues. Milani is the author of*Modernity and Its Foes in Iran* (Gardon Press, 1998); *The Persian Sphinx: Amir Abbas Hoveyda and the Riddle of the Iranian Revolution* (Mage, 2000); *Lost Wisdom: Rethinking Persian Modernity in Iran* in English (Mage 2004) and Persian (Ketob Corp. 2004); *The Myth of the Great Satan*(Hoover Institution Press, 2010). His latest book is *The Shah* (Palgrave MacMillan, 2011). Milani has also translated numerous books and articles into Persian and English. His articles have been published in journals, magazines, and newspapers including *The Washington Quarterly*, the *Encyclopedia Iranica*, the *Hoover Digest*, *Iranshenasi*, the *Journal of the Middle East*,*Middle East Journal*, and the *New York Review of Books*.

**Contact**: [Elizabeth Flanagan](mailto:elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu)



 

 



 

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