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The COLDBIHOT project examines the interplay between cultural diplomacy and literature during the Cold War, focusing on the role of a US-sponsored publishing house in the Middle East. It aims to understand the complexities of cultural influence and the challenges faced in winning public support.
COLDBIHOT is an interdisciplinary and historical research project that explores the connection between Stalin’s death, the US-backed coup in Iran, and the opening of a US-sponsored publishing house (Franklin Publications) in Cairo in 1953.
After Stalin died the American “battle of ideas” with the spread of communism entered a new phase.
Key to this “cultural Cold War” was the use of various channels to spread (pro-US) liberal ideas around the world.
Franklin was founded to support the translatio…
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