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Education and the Cultural Cold War in the Middle East: The Franklin Book Programs in Iran

by Mahdi Ganjavi
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780755643462
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
  • Publisher Imprint: I. B. Tauris & Company
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 208
  • Original Price: GBP 29.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 454 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Middle East / Iran, History, and Imperialism

WINNER OF THE 2023 MIDDLE EAST LIBRARIANS ASSOCIATION BOOK AWARD.


The Franklin Book Programs (FBP) was a private not-for-profit U.S. organization founded in 1952 during the Cold War and was subsidized by the United States' government agencies as well as private corporations. The FBP was initially intended to promote U.S. liberal values, combat Soviet influence and to create appropriate markets for U.S. books in 'Third World' of which the Middle East was an important part, but evolved into an international educational program publishing university textbooks, schoolbooks, and supplementary readings. In Iran, working closely with the Pahlavi regime, its activities included the development of printing, publishing, book distribution, and bookselling institutions.
This book uses archival sources from the FBP, US intelligence agencies and in Iran, to piece together this relationship. Put in the context of wider cultural diplomacy projects operated by the US, it reveals the extent to which the programme shaped Iran's educational system. Together the history of the FBP, its complex network of state and private sector, the role of U.S. librarians, publishers, and academics, and the joint projects the FBP organized in several countries with the help of national ministries of education, financed by U.S. Department of State and U.S. foundations, sheds new light on the long history of education in imperialist social orders, in the context here of the ongoing struggle for influence in the Cold War.

Ganjavi, Mahdi: - Mahdi Ganjavi holds a PhD from the University of Toronto, Canada. Ganjavi's scholarly writings, essays, and reviews have appeared in the International Journal of Lifelong Education, Encyclopedia Iranica, Iranian Studies, the Bullet, and the Review of Middle East Studies.

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