No. 218    |    2 September 2015
   

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Comrade! Take it easy. (1)

A Report on the Anti-Shah Campaign in Iraq and Travel to Palestine and Lebanon

It was 1967. I was under the severe pursuit of SAVAK. Mr. Rafsanjani was arrested by SAVAK for our joint activities and was being interrogated. I received a message from prison in which had asked me to leave Iran and go to Iraq in every possible way and as soon as possible.

Listening to Iraqi Radio for 5 Years

Sedigheh Akbarnia was born in Babol, a city in Mazandaran province, in 1966. He married a young militant in 1982 when she was only 16. Her husband left for war fronts in the same day of marriage. Some months later, she heard something from him that transformed her as one of the unknown activists of the home front.

I saw Iran with my own eyes; people smile here.

One week in Iran? When friends figured that I’ve decided to travel to Iran they questioned my decision as if I was going to war and they warned me to be careful and take care of myself.

Khorramabad Student Choir Oral History

Along with Prophet Mohammad Army

In 1985 Khorramabad Student Choir could attract and gather talented and promising students to the group in a short time by Isa Sepahvani with the cooperation of life skills teachers.

Persian translation of Ann Tyler’s ‘Digging to America’ published

The novel ‘Digging to America’ by Anne Tyler, translated into Persian by Goli Emami is published. This novel is about the life of an Iranian couple living in America who want to adopt a child.

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Daughter of Sheena-47
Memories of Qadamkheyr Mohammadi Kanaan
Wife of Sardar Shaheed Haj Sattar Ebrahimi Hajir
Memory writer: Behnaz Zarrabizadeh
Tehran, Sooreh Mehr Publications Company, 2011 (Persian Version)
Translated by Zahra Hosseinian

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We got up and came out of the building. It was so smoky and dusty that we hardly could see a few steps away. We didn’t know where to go. “Few days ago, when near the barracks was bombed,” a woman said, “my husband was at home and said that if the situation was bad, do not stay at home and go out to the surrounding valleys.”


 
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