293rd Session of Memory Night

Secrets and Humors of the War Martyrs

According to Iranian Oral History Website, 293rd session of series of the sacred defenses memory night programs was held in Soore Hall of Hozeh Honari on Wednesday, July 26, 2018. Davood Amirian, Hasan-Ali Doruki and Hamid Jahangir Feizabadi expressed their memories of the Iraqi imposed war against Iran.

Oral history and paying more attention to details

In response to this question, Seyed Qassem Yahosseini, a history writer and researcher said, “Fortunately, if we want to talk about this more precisely, I should say that oral memories have advanced significantly in different fields, in a way that today, we can present examples from oral memories in various genres. A while ago, for giving a lecture, I classified the oral memories which have been released in Iran and sorted out some 20 oral memories.

The origin of questions in oral history interview

More or less, we face with the request of introducing sample of questions for an interview and even more, some have done unsuccessful efforts to prepare a checklist of questions for an oral history interview. In this text, we deal briefly with this question what resource is the origin of questions in oral history and whether we can create a bank of questions for an interview in oral history?

Introduction to “How many of us were there?”

Iranian Kazakhs in the Holy Defense

The book “How many of us were there?” focuses on the memoirs of the Islamic Revolution and the war imposed by Iraq with the subject of “a glance on the presence of Kazakhs in the Holy Defense”. Hojjat Shahmohammadi, the author, in a seven page introduction defines the reasons ...

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