Cultural Change Archives - Foundation for Iranian Studies

Shayegan, Daryush

zah7d — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:06:12 +0000

Family and educational background; recollections of early intellectual activities in Iran and meeting with leading philosophers and mystics; recollections of the cultural ambience of Tehran University’s Faculty of Letters; working, agenda and objectives of the Iranian Center for the Study of Cultures; cultural and sociopolitical views of the intelligentsia in the 1960s and 1970s; on the interactions of various intellectual trends in Iran; intellectuals and the Revolution of 1978-79.

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Saffari, Bijan

zah7d — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:06:36 +0000

Personal and educational background; on the encounter between the traditional and the modern in twentieth century Iran; revival of interest in the traditional art forms in the 1970s; cultural crisis in the late Pahlavi era; on the cultural roots of the Revolution; beginnings of the Shiraz Art Festival; Festival’s aim and agenda; impact of the Festival on the artistic circles outside of Iran; reaction of SAVAK and the media to the Festival; influence of the Festival on the development of performing arts in Iran; on Queen Farah’s patronage of the Festival; recollections of the contribution of the National Iranian Radio and Television Organization (NIRT) to the performing arts in Iran; workings of NIRT; on the creation and objectives of the Queen Farah Foundation.

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Pahlbod, Mehrdad

zah7d — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:07:02 +0000

Family and educational history; early career at the Ministry of Culture and Arts; aims and operations of the Ministry in the 1950s and the 1960s; reviving traditional Persian music; operations of the Institute of Fine Arts; rivalry within the Ministry of Information and Tourism; creation and management of Rudaki Hall; film production at the Ministry; Shah’s views on the Mansur government; Queen Farah’s cultural activities; National Iranian Radio and Television Organization and propagation of Persian culture; attempts at the Ministry to promote archaeological activities and restoring historical sites; on the Academy of Language; Ministry’s role in promoting festivals and official events; on censorship and the development of the film industry in Iran; impact of leftist propaganda on the Ministry’s activities; recollections of the Shah’s Coronation and Twenty Five Hundred Years of Monarchy Celebrations.

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Nurbakhsh, Javad

zah7d — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:07:02 +0000

Family background and upbringing; recollections of Kerman; relations between various religious groups in Kerman; on the Ne`matollahi order and history; on becoming a Sufi; succession in the Ne`matollahi order; on Zahiroddowleh and Safi Ali Shah; on the effect of the Revolution on Sufism; Islamic Republic’s policy toward Ne`matollahis; Pahlavi regime’s policy toward Ne`matollahis; on the role of Ne`matollahis in Persian culture; on the role of Ne`matollahis in the Constitutional Revolution of 1905-06; the Ne`matollahi order outside Iran; Ne`matollahis’ attitude and policy toward women; on teaching of psychology in Iran.

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Nasr, Seyyed Hossein

zah7d — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:07:25 +0000

Family background; recollections of childhood and educational history; teaching at Tehran University; as Dean of Faculty of Letters of Tehran University; teaching at the American University of Beirut and at Harvard university; on problems that confronted Iranian universities; on Ali-Naqi Alikhani as Chancellor of Tehran University; on the academic agenda and calibre of Arya Mehr University of Technology and the problems facing that University; sources of the political unrest in the Iranian universities; role of the leftist and Islamic groups in student activism; impressions of the Shah and his religious beliefs; role of religion in the Iranian polity and society; rejuvenation of Iranian culture in the 1970s; cultural relations between Iran and other countries; on the personal traits of Queen Farah; on the Iranian political elite; recollections of Iran’s important religio-cultural figures; on the roots of the Revolution of 1978-79; recollections of the Ayatollahs Khomeini and Motahhari, and Ali Shari`ati.

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Behnam, Jamshid

zah7d — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:09:01 +0000

Recollections of childhood; reminiscences of literary figures of the 1940s and 1950s; education at Tehran University; memories of Prime Minister Mansur’s Progressive Circle (Kanun-e Moteraqqi); work at the Plan and Budget Organization; establishing the Institute of Social Studies and Research of Tehran University; on the introduction of the discipline of sociology to the university curricula in Iran; activities of the Institute of Social Studies and Research; on economic planning in Iran; on the government’s views on cultural development in Iran; assessment of the activities of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education; cultural and political trends at Tehran University in the 1970s; westernism in the universities; recollections of the famous professors of Tehran University; on the Ramsar Educational Conferences; planning for the Farabi University; on Iran’s activities at UNESCO.

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Ardalan, Nader

zah7d — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:09:01 +0000

Family and educational background; on the Ardalan family; on first wife, Muslem activist Laleh Bakhtiyar; rejuvenation and development of Persian architecture in the 1970s; development of interest in the relationship between architecture and Sufism, effect of Sufi thought on architectural design; on the design of the Arya Mehr Sport Center, Iran Center for Management Studies and Behshahr Industrial Group Headquarter Building; work with architect Abdol Aziz Farmanfarmaiyan; recollection of work in Iran; on the revival of “paradise garden” in Persian architecture; Pahlavi government policy on architecture.

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Afkhami, Gholam Reza

zah7d — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:09:25 +0000

Family and educational background; student politics in Tehran in the 1940s and early 1950s; on Mosaddeq’s premiership and the nationalization of oil; role of leftists, nationalists and religious elements in the nationalization of oil movement; character and extent of socioeconomic development of Iran during the last twenty years of the Shah’s regime; factors important in the Iranian Revolution of 1978-79; on the Rastakhiz Party; 1975 parliamentary elections under Rastakhiz; on Prime Minister Hoveyda’s tenure of office; working with Jamshid Amuzegar in the Ministry of Interior; theory, strategy and organization of Iranian national campaign against illiteracy; on the debates over the issues of decentralization of power and political participation in Iran in the 1970s; on the Shah’s character traits; on the Revolution.

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