No. 704    |    27 September 2025
   

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Theoretical Foundations and Practical Solutions

The Oral History Website, in order to better understand the problems and challenges of producing oral history works or memoirs, has conducted interviews with several experts and practitioners in this field. These will be presented as short notes.

The 370th Night of Memories – 4

The 370th Night of Memories program was held on July 23, 2025, with the theme “Muharram at the Front” at the Sura Hall of the Art Center. In this program, Reza Afsharnezhad, Seyyed Saleh Mousavi, and Ramin Asgari shared their memories. The event was hosted by Davood Salehi. The second narrator of the Night of Memories program was “Seyyed Sali”, whose real name is Seyyed Saleh Mousavi.

The Memoir of Seyyed Nasser Hosseini from His Years in Captivity

It had been a few days since I had grown acquainted with Jafar Dowlati-Moghadam. Today marked both the commencement of the Sacred Defense Week and the anniversary of the Baathist regime’s invasion of our homeland. For several days, whenever I went outside for a breath of fresh air, I spent most of my time with Jafar Dowlati-Moghadam and Meysam Seirfar. Hamed, one of the Iraqi guards, had a particularly hostile relationship with Jafar.

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Medal and Leave - 8

11 notes from an Iraqi captive

Compiled by Hedayatollah Behboudi

 Translated by: M.B. Khoshnevisan

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Episode 8: A cup of coffee

He was coming towards us. Proud and intoxicated by a hollow victory.


 
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