Writers Association Archives - Foundation for Iranian Studies

Parham, Baqer

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

Education and family background; recollection of the political scene in Rasht in the 1950s; on the impact of the events of 1953 in Rasht; activities of the Iran Party in Gilan; political activities, trial and imprisonment in the 1950s; experiences with the Center for Social Studies of Tehran University; on gravitating towards Marxism; recollections of Amir Parviz Puyan and other leaders of the Fada’iyan; on his political activism and problems encountered with the authorities; recollections of a meeting with Parviz Sabeti; on the political climate reigning in Iranian university campuses in the 1970s; nature and structure of thought and world view of the Iranian intelligentsia in the 1970s; on the establishment and activities of the Writers Association of Iran; recollections of the arrangements made for the “Ten Nights” program at the Goethe Institute organized by the Association; political importance and accomplishments of the Association; internal conflicts in the Association and their ramifications; on the radicalization of the Association’s politics in the 1978-79 and the Writers Association’s eventual demise after the revolution.

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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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Ashuri, Daryush

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

Educational background; recollections of involvement in politics in the 1950s; on the National Front and its activities after 1953; recollections of literary activities in the 1950s and 1960s; recollections of cooperation with Khalil Maleki and the Third Force Party (Niru-ye Sevvum); relations between the opposition forces and the regime; on the first and second Writers’ Association of Iran; recollection of General Naser Moqaddam, and impressions of political thinking within SAVAK; assessment of the political activities of the liberal and leftist forces in the 1960s; on the Iranian intellectuals and the Revolution of 1978-79.

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