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12th volume of Islamic Revolution Daily Review
Soureh Mehr Publications is about to release the 12th volume of the Islamic Revolution Daily Review considering the major events from January 17-20 1979 in the Iranian book market.
IBNA: Speaking with IBNA, the volume’s compiler Mirza Bagher Alian Nejad said topics like people’s heavy-handed crackdown by the army on January 17 in Ahvaz, people’s demonstrations in Tehran on January 19, and formation of the committee to welcome Imam Khomeini in Tehran on January 20 are some of the topics considered in the volume.
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Book released on Iraq’s war crimes against Iran
Mohammad Bagher Nik-khah Bahrami has recently authored ‘War Crimes’ in assessment of the criminal deeds of Saddam’s Ba’ath Regime during the 8-year Iraq-imposed war on Iran.
IBNA: According to the public relation office of the Sacred Defense Document and Research Center, the book is published on the occasion of June 29, the day of ‘Fighting Chemical and Biological Warfare’ in Iran.
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Iran to release new title revealing US felony on downing of Flight 655
‘Re-reading the Case of a Crime’ is the title of an article published 3 years ago by the study division of Khatamol Anbia Air Defense Center in Iranian journals, revealing realities about the downing of Flight 655. The article will be published as a book with new findings about the incident.
IBNA: The article will be published as a book by the same center with more details found about the incident proving the US felony on the event.
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Memory, Beyond the "Truth" of Actual Deeds
“A narrated memory is a product of a selective process, and is thus accompanied by silences and forgotten elements. When we remember, we seek to create an identity for ourselves that harmonizes the past and the present. At the same time, it demonstrates a desire to leave our mark on our world, discussing what we are for and what we are against. Memory thus represents an active arena where we continually negotiate our perceptions of being and living in the world.
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Storytelling session: Digging through annals of history
Intertwined with the story of Pakistan are the life stories of those who have seen it evolve over the decades. They have lived through the realities of partition of the Indian Subcontinent and migration to Pakistan. While harbouring hope, they have also known heartache and turmoil and have stories to tell.
In a spirit to commemorate their collective journey, the Citizens Archive of Pakistan (CAP) held a storytelling session under its Oral History Project at Kuch Khaas on Thursday. Exploring the theme of “Migration and Refugee Camps” a video ran black and white scenes of people in exodus, the trains and airplanes they boarded on and the camps at mainly public buildings where they stayed following the migration.
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AFRICA, SWAZILAND: Understanding HIV Stigma
Lindiwe Mondy Simelone of SWANHEPPA (Swaziland network of people living with HIV/AIDS) reports on a project that combines quantitative research, oral testimony and media in Swaziland. Lindiwe is a project coordinator, as well as oral testimony interviewer.
‘Give Stigma the Index Finger: Understanding and Responding to Stigma, funded by Comic Relief is a project working in waziland, Ethiopia and Mozambique aiming to increase understanding of HIV stigma by empowering men and women living with HIV to take an active part in the research and resulting advocacy.
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Oral History Weekly Magazine Aims and Regulations
Oral History Weekly Magazine wishes to create a suitable place for thoughts and idea development; Its main field would be “Oral History” and subjects as telling & writing memoirs, writing diaries, travelogues, chronologies, and all other subfields of history which are presented in the form of news, articles, reports, notes, interviews and memoirs can be included. There is no limitation on the length of would-be-sent materials.
Mentioning the name, academic background and email is necessary. Articles with complete references and bibliography are more credited and an abstract would quite helpful.
Weekly is not about to publish any material consisting insults and libels about other people or anything that brings anxiety to public opinion. Weekly can edit and translate the received materials.
The published articles and materials are only the writer’s ideas and Oral History Weekly Magazine has no responsibility about their content.
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The person in charge of the Office of Resistance Studies and Literature Hossein Nasrollah Zanjani has introduced the provinces of Gilan, Kohgiloyeh and Boyer Ahmad, Zanjan and Yazd as the most active ones in the area of oral history compilation and Islamic revolution and holy defense memories respectively.
Ahmad Ahmad Memoirs (38)
Edited by Mohsen Kazemi
Soureh Mehr Publishing Company
(Original Text in Persian, 2000)
Translated by Mohammad Karimi
Interrogation
Few days after my meeting with Saeed Mohammadi Fateh, the agents came to me. They closed my eyes and hands and put in a bus. Then we came out of Evin Prison. Inside the bus somebody had sat so calmly just beside me. I asked him: “Who are you?” He said: “A Muslim guy!” I said: “I’m Ahmad Ahmad.” He said: “Ahmad Ahmad! Member of INP? How are you, I’d your name.”
I asked: “What’s your name?” He said: “I’m Mohammad Hanifnezhad.”(1) I was shocked a bit. We warmly began speaking. He was going for his case revision and getting ready for appeals court. I told him: “People backbite you and ask why he is not given a death penalty verdict while other members of Organization (People’s Mujahedin) are going to be executed!” He said: “I’ve heard these things and know them either. I swear to God that I resisted very well, but I do not know why they behaved this way! This time I would do the way that they would give me a death verdict too.” I heard later that in the appeals court he had thrown the book of law to the picture of Shah and then the judge had gotten angry and issued his death verdict. |
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