No. 227    |    8 November 2015
   

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They are still living in those days

In the twenty-first anniversary, the ‘Night of Memory’ session has hosted the narrators of war. This program has been held on the first Thursday of every month and two and a half hours before the call to evening prayer, at Arts Center (Hozeh Honari). During these years it has found its audience and is considered as assembly for veterans. During an interview Mehdi Khanbanpour, executive secretary of the ‘Night of Memory’ program, described the history of the meeting.

Literature oral history narrated by Sepanlou to be published

In an interview with IBNA, Mohammad Hashem Akbariani, poet, author and journalist, said: “‘Oral History of Poetry in a Dialogue with Mohammad Ali Sepanlou’ was not approved for publication by the Culture Ministry of the former Iranian administration, but it was published abroad.”

Book Review

Nixon, Kissinger and the Shah

The United States and Iran in the Cold War

On 16 January 1979 Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi fled Iran and went into exile. The revolution continued for another month until, on 11 February, the monarchy was officially abolished. This marked the end of an era, one in which, for all its suffering and hardships, Iran had become one of the pillars of the Persian Gulf, being an integral part of US strategy and a regional power in itself.

Enlisted in her brother’s memory

“This is Jimmy. That’s my brother. He was killed in the Army,” she says while holding up his photo. Jimmy McCann entered the Army to fight in World War II. But he never got the chance. He was killed in August 1943 when a crane collapsed while his unit was trying to unload cargo from a ship off the coast of Iran.

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Daughter of Sheena-56

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

The next day we went to Hamadan. Samad said that he has some works to do in Revolutionary Guards’s office a few days. I didn’t want him to go alone, so I readied the kids. We took Sattar’s daughter, Somayeh with ourselves too.

All the way, kids were playing with each other in the car, laughing and making a lot of noise.  Sattar’s daughter also was playing with them and had fun.


 
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