Wed, Feb 21, 2007 5:45 pm
Inside Iran - Persian Powerhouse: A Discussion with Abbas Milani
University of San Francisco
USF's Lone Mountain Campus, Room 100 (Lone Mountain Campus is on Turk at Parker)
San Francisco
For more information contact:
415-422-6357
www.pacificrim.usfca.edu
Reservations: 415-422-6828
Wednesday, February 21, 2007, 5:45 p.m.
USF Lone Mountain Campus, Room 100
(2800 Turk Blvd., between Masonic & Parker, San Francisco)
Inside Iran: Persian Powerhouse
A discussion with Abbas Milani, Ph.D., Stanford University and the Hoover Institution
Iran is the great power in the Persian Gulf and a major player in South Asia. Through most of the Cold War years Tehran was the critical American ally in this resource-rich region. The 1979 Iranian Revolution transformed the state when Ayatollah Khomeini replaced the Shah and founded an Islamic Republic. Since then Iran and the U.S. have been at loggerheads while Iranian oil feeds energy hungry China and Japan. Will misconceptions lead to yet another gulf war?
Dr. Abbas Milani served on the faculty of law and political science at Tehran University from 1979 to 1987 where he also was a member of its Center for International Studies. He also held appointments at the Iranian Center for Social Research and at the National University of Iran. Milani earned his B.A. in economics and political science at U.C. Berkeley and his Ph.D. at the University of Hawaii.
Patrick Lloyd Hatcher, Ph.D., a Kiriyama Distinguished Fellow at the USF Center for the Pacific Rim, will moderate.
Free and open to the public; reservations recommended. Please call the USF Center for the Pacific Rim event registration line at (415) 422-6828.
Cosponsored with the Asia Society Northern California, the Mechanics' Institute, and the Fromm Institute for Lifelong Learning.