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Interview with Mojtahedi, Mohammad Ali

Date

May 16, 1988

Location

Bethesda, Maryland

Interviewer

Afkhami, Mahnaz

Language

Persian

Abstract

Recollections of childhood and early education; descriptions of travelling from northern Iran to Tehran and then to Europe for higher education; recollections of Alborz High School; curriculum and the academic calibre of the high school; role of Alborz in the country’s educational goals and achievements; as the Chancellor of the National University of Iran and Arya Mehr University of Technology; on the achievements of Iran in providing higher education in the sciences and technical fields; on the Shah and various other high ranking government officials.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6

Transcripts

Mohammad-Ali-Mojtahedi-APt-I Mohammad-Ali-Mojtahedi-English

Contents

40pp.+ summary + biographical note + index + photograph

About the interviewee

Mojtahedi, Mohammad Ali

Professor at Tehran University; Chancellor of Arya Mehr University of Technology, 1965-1968; Chancellor of the National University of Iran, 1968-1969; Principal of Alborz High School, 1947-1979.