No. 628    |    23 March 2024
   

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A Spring Note

A Conversation for Today and Yesterday Inspired by Nature

Spring song is heard. The earth shows its colorful face. Nature is on the path of excellence and leaves winter behind. It is as if this eternal teacher reminds people that the past is not unrelated to today and tomorrow. In order to reach spring, one must experience winter and note that the ...

A Section of the Memories of Khuzestan Fighting Women during the Eight Years of Holy Defense

Narrator: Hamida Moradian - Ahvaz 1986

That year, my mother took me with her, who was not yet ten years old. Women used to wash dishes and clothes from 8:00 a.m. until midday call to prayer and again after prayer and lunch until near evening prayer. I would lift the buckets in which the ladies put their laundry, even ...

348th Session of Memory Night-2

The 348th session of memory night titled “Chokan Homeini” was held in Sooreh Auditorium of the Artistic Sect of the Islamic Republic on Thursday, August 3, 2023. In this session, Hedayatollah Navvab, Abolfazl Hajj Hasanbeigi, and Ehsan Dorostkar, fighters of Jihad Sazandegi, shared their memories. Mehdi Aghabeigi hosted this night of memory.

Part of memoirs of Masoumeh Rasouli about sacred defense supporting

When we were informed of his martyrdom, we wanted to do what we could. The town of Mallard did not have a flower shop. It came to my mind to make a flower basket ourselves. Since my mother had lived in Tehran in the past, she knew how to make flowers and had the equipment.

I Do Not Sign

Warnings Before Arrest

We acted publicly in the first year of entering the Faculty of Pharmacy as once the dean of the faculty, Dr. Zargari, invited me to his room. I don't know, maybe I was in the second semester. But I'm sure I wasn’t still a student in his class; thus I didn't know him. The story was that one day a gentleman named Mr. Nazmjoo, who usually sat in front of the ...

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Da (Mother) 89

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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Chapter Twenty one: Suspicious Characters

I didn’t find working at the clinic, gathering the dead, and tending the wounded in the town all that satisfying.


 
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