Da Released in English

Mazda Publishers website has announced the recent release of the English version of Da in California, USA, under the title of "One Woman's War (Da)". The autobiography is narrated by Zahra Hoseyni and is rendered into English by Paul Sprachman. According to the introduction of the book at Mazdapublishers.com, "One Woman's War" is many things. Part autobiography, part oral history of the Iran-Iraq War (1980–88). It is the story of Zahra Hoseyni, a female descendant of the Prophet Mohammad (thereby termed a seyyedeh), whose Kurdish family found refuge in Iran after being expelled from their native Iraq.

Memoirs of former Iranian regime’s PM published

The seventh volume of Assadolllah Alam’s memoirs was released, Alam was a former Iranian Prime Minister during the reign of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and his memoirs contain information and documents about the significant events in the contemporary history of Iran. The director of Mo’ein publication, Nima Saleh Ramsari told IBNA correspondent that the volume seven is the last of this series which features Alam’s diaries: “Alam [1 April 1919 – 14 April 1978] had preserved his memoirs in a Swiss bank and had willed for their publication 20 years after his death. His will was fulfilled by one of his close friends, Ali Naqi Aali-Khani who himself was the Minister of Economy during the second Pahlavi’s monarchy.”

Islamic Encyclopedia’s 21st volume features an article on Ayatollah Khamenei

The 21st volume of the Great Islamic Encyclopedia was published. The new volume features an article on the leader of the Islamic Revolution of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei written by Dr. Ali Akbar Velayati. The chief editor of this series of Encyclopedia is Sayyed Kazem Mousavi Bojnourdi and the publisher is The Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia (CGIE) which is a major research institute based in Tehran. Established in 1983, it is charged with the task of researching and publishing general and topical encyclopedias about Iranian and Islamic culture. According to the IBNA correspondent, the 21st volume of the Great Islamic Encyclopedia covers the entries whose first letters begin with H and Kh ( ح and خ in Persian alphabet).

Oral history of war in Afghanistan, writer resigns

Finally, after more than two years of challenge over a dispute in publishing the book “An Intimate War” in Britain, a captain in the British Territorial Army and the book’s writer resigned of his post in order to publish his critical oral history book about the presence of the US and British forces in Afghanistan’s war free from the pressures of the British defense ministry. Dr Mike Martin had been locked in a battle with the Ministry of Defence to publish his study after it commissioned him to write a PhD thesis on the recent history of Helmand.

A Closer Look at Community Partnerships-2

As the project manager, I found myself continually navigating questions of ethics and best practice as we delved into designing our community project. I found the Principles and Best Practices of the Oral History Association to be an invaluable document for catalyzing the necessary conversations with my community partners, but I found this document to be sorely lacking when we pulled the edge of the rug up and began to consider the details and implications of choosing one approach over another. I consulted the older guidelines, the association’s Evaluation Guidelines, and took some comfort in the more detailed recommendations for practice found therein. The older guidelines helped us navigate the relationship of the interviewer to the narrator and the responsibilities and obligations that are implicit to that relationship.

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