Journalism and the Printed Media Archives - Foundation for Iranian Studies

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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Qasemi, Mehdi Baradaran

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

Family background and early political socialization; joining the Tudeh Party; Party’s structure and method of recruitment; relations between the Tudeh Party and the government between 1941 and 1945; Tudeh Party’s appeal to the youth; internal ideological divisions within the Tudeh Party; intellectual and political climate within the Tudeh Party; role of the intellectuals in the Party; Tudeh Party and the Azarbayjan Crisis of 1945-46; on Khalil Maleki and the balance-sheet of his activities; relations between Tudeh Party and the National Front; on the Tudeh Party cells within the military; on Nureddin Kiyanuri and his leadership of the Party; on Mozaffar Firuz and Ahmad Qavam; government reaction to Tudeh Party’s activities; recollections of imprisonment as a Tudeh activist; on the mode of operation of the Tudeh Party; on the deaths of Lankarani and Ghaffari; on Fereydun Keshavarz’s recent polemic against the Tudeh Party; reasons for leaving the Party; on the government’s decision to coopt former Tudeh activists; recollections of employment at the Ministry of Information and Tourism, and Radio Iran; recollections of Nosratollah Mo`iniyan and General Hasan Pakravan; reminiscences of participation in drawing up the constitution of the Rastakhiz Party; on the causes of the Revolution of 1978-79.

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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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Ovanesiyan, Arbi

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

Family background and educational history; early artistic activities; employment with National Iranian Radio and Television Organization (NIRT); on the Shiraz Art Festival; press reaction to the Festival; balance-sheet of the Festival; reasons for opposition to the Festival; planning and operation of the Festival; continuity and change in the theater arts in Iran; inherent differences between popular culture and the new artistic trends; on censorship; performing arts among Armenians of Esfahan.

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Nafisi, Mohammad

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

Family and educational background; recollections of education in the U.S.; Iranian students in the U.S. in the 1960s; employment at National Iranian Radio and Television Organization (NIRT); production of children’s programs at NIRT; aims and agenda of NIRT; responses to NIRT’s programming from other governmental bodies; Reza Qotbi’s leadership at NIRT; confrontations between NIRT and SAVAK; on the impact of television coverage of the trial of urban guerillas; on censorship; internal problems of NIRT due to rapid organizational expansion; NIRT’s programming and the public reaction to it; on the Shiraz Art Festival; cultural ambience of television programming in Iran.

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Mesbahzadeh, Mostafa

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

Family and educational background; early political career; recollections of work at the Majles; working of Iranian politics; political change in Iran since WWII; on the leading Iranian political and military personages; impressions of the personality and leadership style of the Shah; origin, organization and administration of Keyhan Newspaper; role of the printed media in Iranian politics; relations between the printed media and the government; on the issue of censorship; on the causes of the Iranian revolution; recollections of the unfolding of the Revolution.

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Mahmudi, Kambiz

zah7d — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:07:53 +0000

Recollections of childhood in Kerman; memories of life in Mashhad under Soviet occupation; employment with the Point Four Program; recollections of the National Front and the Tudeh Party and their activities; beginnings of Iran’s television broadcasting; early years of the television industry in Iran; television and government policy; television and the land reform; creation of the National Iranian Radio and Television Organization (NIRT); relations between NIRT and the U.S. armed forces’ television; structure, mode of operation and agenda of NIRT; Reza Qotbi’s leadership at NIRT; NIRT’s program development; NIRT’s general outlook and its political implications; influence of the left in NIRT; news analysis at NIRT; educational television in Iran and its impact; NIRT and the revolutionary upheaval.

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Mahjub, Mohammad Jafar

zah7d — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:07:53 +0000

Memories of childhood and images of Tehran at the time; status of education in Iran at the time; employment at the Majles as secretary-stenographer; joining the Tudeh Party; Tudeh Party’s structure and mode of operation; literary activities of the Tudeh Party; Tudeh Party’s main organizers; government reaction to Tudeh Party’s activities in the Majles; literary and intellectual activities in Iran during the Pahlavi period; intellectual climate at Tehran University; government’s censorship policies; recollections of Hasan Emami and how he became Emam Jom`eh of Tehran.

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Kazemiyyeh, Eslam

zah7d — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:08:15 +0000

Family and educational background; activism in the Tudeh Party; structure and mode of operation of the Tudeh Party; divisions within the Tudeh Party; recollections of Khalil Maleki and the Third Force Party; Iran’s intellectual and artistic climate in the 1960s and the 1970s; political organization among Iranian writers; Prime Minister Alam’s co-optation of Tudeh activists; on Amini’s premiership; on the events of 1963-64, and their political implications; on social change in Iran; political activities of the dissident groups in the 1970s; roots of the religious establishment’s alienation from the Pahlavi state; on the intellectuals and bureaucrats’ support for the Revolution; personal encounters with the Ayatollahs Khomeini and Khamene’i; reminiscences of Ali Shari`ati; politics in Iran after the Revolution; on meetings between Abol-Hasan Bani-Sadr and Ardeshir Zahedi; government’s reaction to revolutionary upheaval; reasons for leaving Iran.

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Homayun, Daryush

zah7d — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:08:15 +0000

Recollections of childhood; political activism among Iranian youth in the 1940s; nationalism in Iran during the Reza Shah period; establishing the Ayandegan Daily; government restrictions on the operation of newspapers; reminiscences of the activities of the Franklin Institute in Tehran; on the formation of a writers’ association; on the nature and extent of political socialization of Iranians during the Pahlavi period; changes in the political orientation of Iranians during the late Pahlavi period; on Hoveyda’s premiership; origins, workings and agenda of the Rastakhiz Party; premiership of Jamshid Amuzegar; on Ettela`at Newspaper’s inflammatory article against Ayatollah Khomeini in 1977; recollections of the Iranian political scene in the months leading to the Revolution.

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