Ahmad Sadri

AHMAD SADRI is Professor of Sociology and James P. Gorter Chair of Islamic World Studies at Lake Forest College. He received his BA and MA degrees at the University of Tehran and his PhD from the New School for Social Research. Sadri is the author of Max Weber’s Sociology of Intellectuals (Oxford University Press 1992, 94) and has authored three books in Persian published by Hermes Press (1999) and Kavir Publications (2007, 2008.) He has also written more than one hundred and fifty articles. He has worked as a columnist for Daily Star of Lebanon and a commentator for National Public Radio. Sadri wrote regular columns for several Tehran newspapers prior to the political crisis in 2009.