Happy Eid-ul-Fitr

In the next one or two days fasting people will feast the end of one month of Ramadan, month of fasting and worshiping in Eid-ul-Fitr. Iranian Oral History Online Weekly congratulates this feast to all Muslim believers and may God’s accept your worships. We wish the spiritual treasury made out of this month of praying may guide us in our moral life till the next Ramadan. May God save you and accept your prayers. Pray for us either!

Iran’s Saei to release complete biography

Iran’s most successful Iranian athlete in Olympic history has said he will complement his biography with new additions about 2008 Olympic games in Beijing. IBNA: Speaking with IBNA, Hadi Saei said he is very keen on having his memories of the games added to his biography which was released a few years ago in the Iranian book market. A member of City Council of Tehran, Saei said the book released in 2004 prior to his Beijing gold medal. Furthermore, he added, parts of his political life as a member of the Tehran’s city council will be added to the book for the interested readers.

Tips on Archiving Family History, Part 2

Readers sent dozens of questions about archiving and preserving family history and stories to Bertram Lyons, an archivist at the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress in Washington. He was recently asked to be the editor of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives, an organization that aims to share best practices in the management of audiovisual materials internationally. He received his master’s degree in museum studies from the University of Kansas in 2009. The first set of answers dealt with questions of preserving audio. This week Mr. Lyons fields questions about film and photos. Next week he will address video, manuscript and other issues. This feature is now closed to new questions.

County Fair’s oral history event brings out young and old

Hundreds of people headed to the Winona County Fair on Thursday to enjoy the spectacles and entertainment — and to revisit memories with friends and family. Attendees Thursday had a chance to share stories of previous years at the fair during Winona County Historical Society’s “I Remember When,” an ongoing oral history series the society is sponsoring. Fair president Cindy Timm, who has gone to the fair since she was a kid, recalled when a monkey got loose from the petting zoo on two separate occasions in 1998 and 2004. The story made the front page of the Daily News, as well as USA Today and other national papers, Timm said. “The best way to promote the fair is let a monkey loose on the fairgrounds,” she joked as she shared the story to an audience of about 20.

ASIA, CAMBODIA: Mothers, Daughters, Sisters, & Wives

Theresa de Langis, a Cambodian-based independent consultant on women’s human rights in conflict settings, reports on her project, ‘Mothers, Daughters, Sisters, Wives’. This is an illustrated oral history project inspired by the Women’s Hearing, which aims to tell the life stories of Cambodian women’s experiences of sexualised and gender-based violence under the Khmer Rouge regime. ‘“We are like wheat floating on the pond.” These are the words of a survivor at the recent Asia-Pacific Women’s Hearing on Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Conflict, hosted by the Cambodian Defenders Project and held in Phnom Penh, October 10-11, 2012. With testifiers from Bangladesh, Cambodia, Nepal and Timor Leste, ten women survivors shared their personal stories, many for the first time publically, before an audience of participants from around the world.

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