March 10, 2000
20 Years After the Islamic Revolution, Iran's Campuses Begin to Loosen Up
Academic freedom is on the rise, though its exercise requires a bit of creativity
In some of the first organized academic visits to Iran by Americans since the 1979 Islamic revolution, Brian Spooner, a professor of Persian studies at the University of Pennsylvania archaeology museum, took a dozen graduate students on two-month study tours for each of the past two summers.
"We were amazed to see how free we were," says Mr. Spooner, who had not traveled to Iran since the
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