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Interview with Rahnema, Majid

Date

December 18 and 21, 1986

Location

Paris and Bethesda, Maryland

Interviewer

Afkhami, Gholam Reza
Afkhami, Mahnaz

Language

Persian

Abstract

Origins of the Alashtar Project; aims and agenda of the Project; participants in the Project; status of rural Lorestan in the 1970s; impact of the White Revolution on Alashtar; reaction of the local inhabitants to the Project; impediments in the path of implementing the Project; power structure in Alashtar; promise and perils of holding elections in Alashtar; balance-sheet of the Project; new perspectives on rural development and health care.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6

Part 7

Part 8

Transcripts

Majid-Rahnema-APt-I Majid-Rahnema-English

Contents

34pp. + summary + biographical note+index

About the interviewee

Rahnema, Majid

Professor at Tehran University; Ambassador to Switzerland, 1965-1967; Minister of Science and Higher Education, 1967-1971; Deputy Prime Minister and Director of the Alashtar Experimental Project, 1972-1977; Senior Staff Member, UNDP and UNESCO.