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Date:       May 23, 1997

Iran Threshold Year 2000

 'Media and its Role, Past, Present, and Future'

 30 - 31 May 1997 10:30 - 7;00

Brunei Gallery SOAS London University Thornhaugh Street Russell Square London WC1

Entrance fee: '3.00 Members: '2.00 Students: Free

The Programme:

Friday May 30, 1997

10:00    Introduction to ACI

10:30    Opening Speeches: 

             Head of London Office

 Panel One

Chair:   AH Zonozi             London-England

11:00    Esmail Pourvali          Paris-France                 'A short history to date of Media in Iran'

12:15    Interval

Panel Two

Chair:   Professor Nasser Kanani             Berlin-Germany

13:30    A Vahdatkhah London-England                 'The role of new technology in mass media'

14:15    F Negahdar             London-England    'Party newspapers, Public newspapers a way of  communication for Iranians abroad'

14:45    *A showing of documentary 'Guardians of Ayatollah'                  Assignment, BBC Feb '96              Producer: Phil Rees

15:30    *Phil Rees             London-England    'The after-effects of 'Guardians of Ayatollah' in Iran'

16:00    Interval

Panel Three

Chair:   ACI

16:15    Dariush Homayoun (paper)             Geneva-Switzerland                 'A look at Censorship during The Pahlavi era'

17:00    Cyrus Amouzegar     Paris-France                 'Policies affecting Official Publications'

18:00    Interval

Panel Four

Chair:   ACI

18:15    Open Discussion

* In English

Saturday May 31, 1997

Panel Five

Chair:   Dr M Alamouti    London-England

10:30    Dr M Assemi  Munich-Germany - {"Berlin's 'Kaveh', Munich's 'Kaveh', the oldest established Farsi publication outside Iran with over eighty years of history"

11:30    Dr AR Noorizadeh London-England 'Press and War'

12:30    Interval

Panel Six

13:30    William Royce   Washington DC-USA     'Voice of America's Persian programme and its effects in Iran'

14:15    Tahir Sadiq             Stockholm-Sweden     'Aims and work ethics of Radio Pejvak, the Scandinavian Farsi Radio

15:15    Bijan Barahmandie   Paris-France      'Mass Media on both sides of the Border: The exchange of ideas and sharing the work'

16:15    Interval

Panel Seven

Chair:   ACI

16:30    Manijeh Vosouqi-Nouri             Toulouse-France                 Book Launch.

16:45    Open Discussion

17:45    Interval

Panel Eight

Convened to honour Esmail Pourvali

Iran's oldest journalist and proprietor of 'Rouzegar Noe'

18:00    Dr Sadroldin Elahi     Berkley-USA    'In the praise of the journalists' journalist, Esmail Pourvali'

18:20    Nader Naderpour         Los Angeles-USA                 'In honour of Esmail Pourvali'

18:30    Esmail Pourvali          Paris-France                 'How I became a journalist'

19:30    Presentations

20:00    Close

Paper: Hooshang Vaziri, Paris-France: 'Ethics in Journalism and Politics'