Call for 3rd National Conference on Oral History of Sacred Defense

According to the Iranian Oral History Website, the call for the third national conference on oral history of the holy defense was published by the Organization for Holy Defense Document and Papers of the Foundation for the Preservation of Relics and Promotion of Values of Sacred Defense, and NLAI. The call states that the Organization for Holy Defense Documents and Papers, Research Institute of Documents, and NLAI in collaboration with research, ...

Oral history teaching

The Most Important Transcriptional Damage

One of the serious drawbacks of oral history is in the transcriptional phase, which is unfortunately considered insignificant. Sometimes, some people cooperate in group writing; The weakest member of the group is selected for transcription. The weakest member is a person who does not have a strong social presence, his/her time is limited, and does not have communication skills, enough literacy, and ability. It seems that this person is a marginalized one! While ...

Being Arrested for no Logical Reason

Religious prisoners often recited verses from the Quran to boost their morale and that of others, and recounted the resistance of the early elders of Islam. But the communists were alien to this habits and deprived of this treasure of knowledge. Several of these people were in a cell next to ours. Their hobby was often singing the vulgar songs of the time. One of them, who had a beautiful voice ...

Methods of Weakening the Morale of Prisoners

One night, at twelve or one oclock (in 1975) that a cell was opened and I was told to put the blouse on my head. I was in very bad condition and I was not able even stand on my feet. The guard wrapped the blouse around my head and tied its sleeves, and took the head of one of the sleeves. He also had a cable in his hand, and ...

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