Abbas Milani
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Abbas Malekzadeh Milani 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. In Milani's book, Lost Wisdom: Rethinking Modernity in Iran, he has found evidence that Persian modernism dates back to more than 1,000 years ago.
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Jun 10, 2026
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Iranian scholar Abbas Milani at Stanford University was named among five recipients of the Walter J. Gores Award, Stanford's highest teaching honor.
For Reformists, Milani's recognition abroad is a bittersweet reminder that Iran's intellectual talent thrives when free from domestic political constraints, underscoring the cost of repressive governance at home.