Date: Wednesday, October 26, 2011. 7:30 PM.
Location: Geology Corner (Bldg. 320), Room 105
Abbas Milani is the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies at Stanford, Research Fellow and Co-director of the Iran Democracy Project at the Hoover Institution, and Visiting Professor in the Stanford Department of Political Science. He is also one of the most knowledgeable commentators on Iranian politics and culture, and is in constant demand by media, governments (both the US and foreign), and universities for his interpretation of the latest events in Iran and their significance. Milani is the prolific author of more than twenty books, most recently The Shah, which is acknowledged as the definitive biography of a man Milani finds immensely complicated, intriguing, and finally tragic. His memoir, Tales of Two Cities, narrates his life as a student in the United States and as a politically active young man who returns to Iran and spends a year in the Shah’s prison. Kirkus Reviews called it “a breathtaking example of the quiet, selfless, gorgeousness of the memoirist’s art.” Hilton Obenzinger, a fiction and nonfiction writer, and lecturer in the Stanford Department of English and in Continuing Studies, will engage Abbas Milani in conversation, focusing on the techniques, quirks, and joys of writing. Wednesday, October 26 7:30 pm Geology Corner (Bldg. 320), Room 105 This event is co-sponsored by the Hume Writing Center and Stanford Continuing Studies. For video, audio, and transcripts of previous “How I Write” conversations, go to continuingstudies.stanford.edu/howiwrite
Location: Geology Corner (Bldg. 320), Room 105
Abbas Milani is the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies at Stanford, Research Fellow and Co-director of the Iran Democracy Project at the Hoover Institution, and Visiting Professor in the Stanford Department of Political Science. He is also one of the most knowledgeable commentators on Iranian politics and culture, and is in constant demand by media, governments (both the US and foreign), and universities for his interpretation of the latest events in Iran and their significance. Milani is the prolific author of more than twenty books, most recently The Shah, which is acknowledged as the definitive biography of a man Milani finds immensely complicated, intriguing, and finally tragic. His memoir, Tales of Two Cities, narrates his life as a student in the United States and as a politically active young man who returns to Iran and spends a year in the Shah’s prison. Kirkus Reviews called it “a breathtaking example of the quiet, selfless, gorgeousness of the memoirist’s art.” Hilton Obenzinger, a fiction and nonfiction writer, and lecturer in the Stanford Department of English and in Continuing Studies, will engage Abbas Milani in conversation, focusing on the techniques, quirks, and joys of writing. Wednesday, October 26 7:30 pm Geology Corner (Bldg. 320), Room 105 This event is co-sponsored by the Hume Writing Center and Stanford Continuing Studies. For video, audio, and transcripts of previous “How I Write” conversations, go to continuingstudies.stanford.edu/howiwrite