The Farah Pahlavi Scholars Programme is rooted in the Shahbanou Farah Pahlavi Foundation’s mission of inspiring the global advancement of social and cultural causes through the legacy of Farah Pahlavi’s guiding principles of empathy and cross-cultural dialogue.

 

The Programme is an open application process for scholarly research on the subjects listed below:

• Iran’s 20th century history

• Culture, arts, education

• Public health

• Civil society

• Cross-cultural dialogue with a forward looking perspective on the future and generations to come

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The Programme supports a global community of thought leaders, researchers and scholars who are conducting scholarly work on "bringing together the best that humanity had offered in the past and would offer in the future with Iran's own past and future”.