Islamic Revolution Document Center to hold 13 book fairs

The Islamic Revolution Document Center will hold 13 book fairs during the Fajr Decade in schools of Tehran, Iran. IBNA: The center will also unveil audio memories of Hujatoleslam Nategh Nouri on January 31, beginning of the decade. The center has planned for various book-related programs to mark the decade. The Fajr Decade is celebrated in Iran every year as the anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Revolution. On every day of the decade, the center releases a book title on its website. The presented titles are themed at the revolution, memories of prominent revolutionary figures, regional history of the Islamic Revolution and informative items addressing youngsters about the revolution.

Americans warmly welcome Sacred Defense books

The universities of the United States warmly welcome Sacred Defense books, an official of Tehran Art Bureau announced. IBNA: The head of the translation office of the Art Bureau Fahimeh Mohammad Semsar said: “Some of the books which have been translated into English by the center include Journey to Heading 270 Degrees, Chess with the Doomsday Machine, Fortune Told in Blood, Sabalan Stories, Ismail and A City under Siege. Moreover the translation of Red Olive, the memories of Nahid Yousefian written by Qasem Yahoseyni, will be released as well. The work is rendered into Persian by M.R Ghanoonparvar.”

Obama’s First Term: A Romantic Oral History

Four years ago, on the eve of Barack Obama’s inauguration, this magazine devoted nearly an entire issue to a photo essay, “Obama’s People.” The photographs, 52 of them, depicted a team arriving on a wave of hope despite inheriting an economy in trouble, a collapsing auto industry, two wars and a continuing terrorist threat. Four years later, they have met some of those challenges, been daunted by others and created new ones of their own. The economy is better but still anemic. Osama bin Laden is dead and the Iraq war over, but Afghanistan remains a morass and the prison at Guantánamo Bay remains open. The auto industry has been saved and health care expanded, but national debt has soared. A dictator in Libya has been toppled, but a dictator in Syria slaughters his own people undeterred.

Past & Present Latest Issue Published

No 218; the latest issue of Past & Present for February 2013 has been published. Founded in 1952, Past & Present is widely acknowledged to be the liveliest and most stimulating historical journal in the English-speaking world. Past & Present is a British historical academic journal, which was a leading force in the development of social history. It was founded in 1952 by a combination of Marxist and non-Marxist historians. The Marxist historians included members of the Communist Party Historians Group, including E. P. Thompson, Christopher Hill, Eric Hobsbawm, Rodney Hilton, and Dona Torr. It is published four times a year by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Past and Present Society, a British historical membership association and registered charity. The society also publishes a book series (Past and Present Publications), and sponsors occasional conferences and appoints postdoctoral fellows.

EUROPE-CYPRUS: THE CYPRUS ORAL HISTORY AND LIVING MEMORY PROJECT

The Cyprus Oral History and Living Memory Project is a process of reflecting on the events of the recent history of Cyprus, particularly the important historic period 1960-1974. Cyprus, one of the smallest countries in the European Union, is also the last divided country in Europe, Nicosia its last divided city. Dr. Nikoletta Christodoulou, project coordinator and principal investigator, introduces the project, as ‘an endeavor to understand the events that contributed to “the Cyprus problem” and to make this information available to others. ‘We interviewed forty people; mostly excluded voices of the widest variety of people who lived through the events of 1974 in a range of capacities, as inhabitants, soldiers, refugees, students, relatives, friends, men and women, girls and boys, Greek-Cypriots, Turkish-Cypriots, and Maronites. Advisor to the project, Professor Bill Ayers argues that a rich and varied archive helps us to understand “how participants, as three-dimensional, grass-roots makers of history, understood the events and narrated their lives”.

Landmarks Committee preserving township, one memory at a time in Randolph

Township historians are capturing the memories of a bygone era and preserving them for future generations through an oral history program. Since the oral history program began in 1999, more than 30 lifelong residents who spent 50 or more years living in Randolph Township have told their stories of what life was like for them growing up in what was then a rural farming community whose population swelled with visitors escaping the city heat during the summer months just as it does in seashore communities today. The Landmarks Committee, comprised of volunteers appointed by the Township Council, is looking for people who spent at least 50 years of their life in Randolph Township, all of whom would remember the open, rolling farmland and wooded areas that existed before the first wave of major developments arrived in the 1970s.

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