No. 574    |    21 February 2023
   

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Post-Revolution Activities (Winter 1979)

Part of Mulla Saleh Qari Memoirs

People visited the center every day, and the room was always crowded. Everyone arrived for help or made a request. Ali, my other friends and I helped them, including providing construction materials, land, job, or even marriage loans, etc, according to the priority of the needs. Eventually, Imam Khomeini ordered to establish "Islamic Revolution Housing Foundation". With the formation of this foundation, tasks were done in an administrative and coherent routine.

Book Review

The Years of Shame

The Years of Shame is the title of the book of memoirs of the people of Ali Qali neighborhood of Isfahan from the time of the discovery of the hijab, the prohibition of the homily and the famine, which researches and interviews were conducted by Hajar Safaiyeh, Narges Loqmanian, Faeze Darehgzani, Rasul Ahmadi and Mehdi Tajiani, and it was written by Faezeh Darehgezani. At first, the reader quickly realizes that this book has an innovative structure both in terms of form and content.

Oral History Workshop – 12

Editing

The oral history website is going to provide the educational materials of some oral history workshops to the audience in written form. The present series has been prepared using the materials of one of these workshops. As you will see, many of the provided contents are not original or less said contents, but we have tried to provide categorized contents so that they can be used more.

A Narrative of Public Movement of June 5 1963

There is a story about Grand Mosque of Shiraz, in which most of June 5 events happened, that I like to note before addressing memories of June 5, 1963. The current director of bureau of Education who had intended to restore the mosque, started it in 1944. But when he evaluated impairment of the mosque, he concluded it would be better destroy the mosque totally and take its bricks to Kazeroon in order to build schools.

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Da (Mother) 35

The Memoirs of Seyyedeh Zahra Hoseyni

Seyyedeh Zahra Hoseyni

Translated from the Persian with an Introduction by Paul Sprachman

Persian Version (2008)

Sooreh Mehr Publishing House

English Version (2014)

Mazda Publishers

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 Eight: Transporting Bodies

At the crack of dawn on the fifth day I waited impatiently for the truck to come, poking my head out of the gate every so often, looking down the avenue for any sign of it.


 
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