Abstract

Family and educational background; recollections of the workings of the Queen’s Bureau under Karim Pasha Bahadori and Hushang Nahavandi; Queen’s interest in the arts and patronage of museums; arts in Iran in the 1970s; on Qajar art; museums and private collections in Iran; problems confronting the propagation of the arts in Iran in the 1970s; balance-sheet of the activities of the Negarestan Museum; on the Shiraz Art Festival; on the Queen Farah Foundation; on the patterns of social change in Iran; personal experiences with the Revolution of 1978-79.