No. 431    |    3 March 2020
   

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The 311th Night of Memory-1

Cans Full of Dirt

According to Iranian Oral History Website, the 311th session of memory night was held in commemoration of women of the imposed war on February 20, 2020. In this session, Iran Torabi, Seyyedeh Fawzia Madih and Hajji Mehdi Zemorodian narrated their memories. The first narrator of the night of memory was Iran Torabi. When Susangerd was captured by the enemy, she witnessed single combat in Bostan, Hoveyzeh, and in Hamid Garrison and had ...

A review of "Three Halves of an Apple"

I leave my Ismaeel to you!

The book "Three Halves of an Apple" is the memoirs of Khadijah Shad, the mother of two martyrs of the defender of shrine, Mustafa and Mujtaba Bakhti which has been authored by Mohammad Mahmoudi Nourabadi. It has been published in 296 pages and in 2500 copies in 2019 by Khat-e Moghaddam Publications. The book consists of 19 chapters; attached by photos given by the family of the two martyrs to ...

The narration of doctor about wartime

The treatment of the people who surrounded us

In the mid-summer of this year, we invited Dr. Hamed Daghaghzadeh to the Office of Culture and Sustainability Studies of Isfahan Art Center. The doctor was very busy, but I insisted to do the interview. He is a doctor in Isfahan, and also a member of the Faculty of Medicine of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences for thirty years. It was hard to find vacancies in his job to listen his memories.

The 310th Night of Memory – 3

Syria narration

According to the website of Iranian Oral History, the 310th program of the Sacred Defense Night of Memory was held in Sooreh Hall of the Art Center on Thursday 23rd of January 2020. In this program, Hojjatol Eslam Ali Shirazi, Morteza Sarhangi and Majid Yusef Zadeh recounted their memoirs about Haj Qassem Soleimani and defense in Syria. The third narrator of the show, Majid Yusef Zadeh said, "I was fond of ...

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SABAH (2)

Memoirs of Sabah Vatankhah

Interviewed and Compiled by Fatemeh Doustkami

Translated by Natalie Haghverdian

Published by Soore Mehr Publishing Co.

Persian Version 2019

 

Chapter one

…I looked out of the window of our house in Koushk building. Masoud Paki[1], in his Basiji uniform, happily and cheerfully had come to the door on a motorcycle. When he saw me, he waved and said: “Hi, sister Sabah! Come quickly, I have come to take you to the rest of the group.”


 
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