[custom_adv]
Founded by Amir Kabir, then the royal vizier to Nasereddin Shah, the Shah of Persia, Dar al-Funun originally was conceived as a polytechnic to train upper-class Persian youth in medicine, engineering, military science, and geology.
Check Also
Parviz Hejazi, pre-revolutionary cinema producer and owner of “Baccarat Cabaret”
The decades leading up to the 1979 Iranian Revolution were years of rapid cultural transformation. …