Rasool Nafisi
Introduction The question of development of the non-industrial world, often called pejoratively “the third world,” used to be a major theme in the academic as well as political world throughout the cold war era.
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Aram Hessami
This is a transcription of Dr. Aram Hessami’s interview with the Iran 1400 project. The Historical Context Iran’s past 100 years should be called the century of modernity and its discontent.
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Ramin Jahanbegloo
This is a translation of Dr. Ramin Jahanbegloo’s interview with the Iran 1400 project. Modernity Defined The concept of modernity, as we know it today, refers to a particular period in the history of humanity and especially the history of the West because modernity was initially formed and shaped in the West with its new outlook about the world and human beings in it.
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Sajjad Elmi Sarai
With the intervention of the Allied forces in Iran and the abdication of Reza Shah in 1941, there was a new opening of the social-political atmosphere in Iran.
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Ali Asghar Haghdar
The beginning of the Constitutional Movement towards the end of the 19th century also marks the start of an evolution in Iran’s music.
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Kambiz Mahmoudi
This article is a transcription based on an interview. Iranian television was the first commercial TV in the Middle East.
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