No. 422    |    24 December 2019
   

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Opening Speech of the Conference Secretary in the 12th National Oral History Conference of Iran

12th Conference on Oral History of Industry, Engineering and Holly Defense Support (18 December 2019, University of Isfahan):

The oral history of the Holly Defense and the imposed war is a new and fascinating work in the field of historiography and recording the events of the Holly Defense. Considering that the Holly Defense is a public, mass, and universal subject it requires due recognition of all aspects, organizations, and institutions and various aspects of the war and the sciences of the Holly ...

A brief overview of “Seventy Years of Sustainability”

Forty Decades of Limpid Memories

If you are interested in history and looking for a good source for oral memoirs, Seventy Years of Sustainability can fulfill your wishes. In this book, Hossein Shah Hosseini recounts his memoirs from 1320 to 1360, from childhood to the beginning of political activities, joining the National Front, being imprisoned during political activities to the victory of the Islamic Revolution, and welcoming the Imam Khomeini Committee and accepting the presidency shortly afterwards of the Physical Education Organization and National Olympic Committee.

The 308th Night of Memory

Navy Name Is Interwoven with Name of Martyr Hemmati

As reported by Iranian Oral History Website, the 308th session of memory night of Sacred Defense was held in Sooreh Hall of Hozeh Honari on Thursday evening, November 26, 2019. In this session, Abdollah Maanavi, Asghar Rezaee and Mir-Mansour Seyyed Qoreishi expressed their memories of the courage of Islamic Republic of Iran Navy (NEDAJA) during the Iraq imposed war on Iran.

It was brought up at the workshop “Midday with Oral History”

Preservation of “lost worlds” with oral history

In the scientific-research workshop “Midday with Oral History”, Dr. Morteza Nouraee said, “There are spaces in old tradition and modern tradition of historiography with which have not dealt and they are called “lost world”. We as just historians must pay attention that we should also deal with the lost worlds in distribution of historiography.” According to the website of Oral History, the scientific-research workshop ...

Neglected History (2)

Critique of Internal Historiography of the United Islamic Students Association Abroad

An interview with Mojtaba Baghernejad

In the first part of the interview, Mr. Bagharnejad described the history of the United Islamic Students Association Abroad to understand the subject and the reasons for its importance in the historiography of the Islamic Revolution and its lack of resources.

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Thirsty Sands (Part 21)

Jafar Rabiei

Design: Ali Vaziri

First published in 1991

Publishing House, Islamic Propagation Organization

Printed at the Aryan

 

Following these pressures exerted by Iraqi in order to impress the POWs mentally, they started broadcasting programs over the loudspeakers interminably for 16 to 18 hours a day. Most of the programs were vulgar music. The loudspeakers were turned on at 6 in the morning, and after a pause of one hour were again started at l or 2 p.m. At sunset they were turned off for half an hour, and then again turned on.

Except for one night when a few of our friends had been taken from Oate three outside the camp for torture, the Iraqi guards did not come to the Oate on other night and it was only in Qate two that unexceptionally every night after sunset prayers the doors of the halls were opened to the halls and by calling some new names took them out of the camp and returned only after heavy beatings with bloody, half dead bodies. No one knew why this pressure was being exerted only on Qate two, while in Qate three there were people lining in the same spirit and characteristics.


 
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