Papers by Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi
The Making of the Modern Iranian Woman: Gender, State Policy, and Popular Culture, 1865-1946, Cameron Michael Amin, Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 2002, IBSN 0-8130-2471-4, 320 pp., illustrations, tables, and index Iranian Studies, 2004
American-Iranian Dialogues, 2022
Journal of Women's History, 1999
Journal of Women's History, 1999
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, 2008
... until 1919, articles in the Fundamental Law on Education of 1911 did grant the state oversigh... more ... until 1919, articles in the Fundamental Law on Education of 1911 did grant the state oversight of private girls' schools (Sadiq 1974). ... Farsani, Soheila Torabi, ed. 1999 Asnadi az madaris-i dukhtaran az mashrutah ta Pahlavi (Records on girls' schools from the Constitution to the ...
Iranian Studies, 2008
This article examines the American Presbyterian education project in Iran from the early nineteen... more This article examines the American Presbyterian education project in Iran from the early nineteenth century to 1940. While most literature on the subject concerns Iranian state-missionary relations and Presbyterian boys' schools in Iran, this article seeks to address the interactions between American Presbyterians, the Iranian state, and students and families of Iranian girls' schools. A study of the Presbyterians' flagship girls' school in Iran Bethel/Nurbakhsh and its sixty-six-year history reveals missionary intentions, tactics, and accomplishments, as well as the adaptations and accommodations pressed upon them by the Iranians they served. Despite the school's promotion of modern American norms and Christian teachings, the young graduates of Iran Bethel/Nurbakhsh developed a strong sense of loyalty to both Iran and Islam, thus turning an evangelist mission into an important feature of the construction of Iranian nationalism and modernity.
Iranian Studies, 2013
Perhaps my repository of memories and recollections can add a dimension to Professor Soli Shahvar... more Perhaps my repository of memories and recollections can add a dimension to Professor Soli Shahvar’s excellent book about the rise, flourishing, and ultimate suppression of modern Bahá’í schools in iran—for those schools are not forgotten by me! i have vivid memories of the morning of 23 September 1934 (1 Mehr of the Persian solar year 1313), my first day at the Tarbíyat School for Boys in Tehran. i had attended the co-ed Bahá’í kindergarten off amíríyyih avenue behind the Tarbíyat School for Girls the previous year, and this was my year of coming of age and experiencing the serious world of school for boys. The atmosphere on that first day of the new academic year was festive and there was a buzz of new things in the air. in the office of the principal of the school, the baton was being passed from the venerable old Mr. azizu’llah Mesbah to the young and energetic ali-akbar furutan, a native of Sabzivár, but grown up in ‘ishqábád and a recent graduate of Moscow university in educational psychology. in many ways this change promised many novel turns in the applied educational philosophy at the Tarbíyat School. as members of each class from the first to the twelfth lined up on the courtyard and in the alcoves of the school to hear the chanting of the opening prayer, the buzz of excitement that was palpable on that morning was about the first proclamation of the new principal ending the practice of corporal punishment at the school. There was the dramatic call for a. husayn, the keeper and administrator of the chúb-u-falak (the bastinado for flogging the feet) to break up his contraption. This was, of course, in compliance with explicit teachings of Bahá’u’lláh and ‘abdu’l-Bahá against corporal
International Journal of Middle East Studies, 1999
Middle East Critique, 2013
This article, which examines the thirty-year history of the Tarbiyat Girls' School of Tehran ... more This article, which examines the thirty-year history of the Tarbiyat Girls' School of Tehran from the late Qajar to the Reza Shah period, sheds light on the nature of contact between Iranian and American Baha'is and the changing communal and organizational development of Baha'is in the early twentieth century. Through the efforts of the Persian-American Educational Society (PAES), American Baha'is financed the school and oversaw its operations and teaching staff during a period when girls' schools were first emerging in Iran. As the school grew in size, its diminishing American influence coincided with the rise of Iranian Baha'i institutions and an emerging public identity for Iranian Baha'is that clashed with the dictates of the state's centralizing, secularizing, and nationalizing reforms.
Iranian Studies
The Peace Corps brought an estimated 1,800 Americans to Iran from 1962 to 1976, coinciding with t... more The Peace Corps brought an estimated 1,800 Americans to Iran from 1962 to 1976, coinciding with the unfolding of Mohammad-Reza Shah Pahlavi’s Enqelāb-e Sefid, or White Revolution. This article surveys Peace Corps Iran’s fourteen-year history by dividing it into three distinct moments defined by changing social and political conditions in Iran and shifting US‒Iranian relations. Initially, the Peace Corps Iran experiment built on earlier American foreign assistance programs, while coinciding with the roll-out of the White Revolution. Second, during its heyday in the mid-1960s, the Peace Corps inevitably became entangled with the White Revolution’s unfolding, both experiencing a phase of expansion and apparent success. Finally, as Iranian social and political conditions moved toward instability by the 1970s, Peace Corps Iran also seemed to have lost its direction and purpose, which ultimately led to a vote by volunteers to terminate the program. Based on accounts by US Peace Corps volunteers and the Iranians with whom they worked, the Peace Corps Agency, and the US State Department, this article argues that, ultimately, the Peace Corps Iran experience left a more lasting legacy on individuals than institutions.
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