Electronic version of Pres. Rohani s memoirs book available

The electronic version of the book, Memoirs of Dr. Hassan Rouhani; Vol. 1: The Islamic Revolution, has been published by the Islamic Revolution Documents Center (IRDC). According to IBNA correspondent, the paper version of this book was published in February 2008. Memoirs of Dr. Hassan Rouhani; Vol. 1 covers the events happened from Rohani’s birth time to the seizure of the U.S. Embassy by the Iranian students in November 4, 1979. The book has been published by the Islamic Revolution Documents Center collaborating with Fidibo, the first multi-platform for the production and distribution of electronic books in the Middle East.

Unveiled: papers from British residencies in the Persian Gulf

British Library and Qatar Foundation digitisation project to unlock a treasure trove of source materials for researchers Elephant from the Description of Animals and their Uses attributed to Aristotle and Ibn Bakhtīshū‘ The Persian Gulf, according to Nelida Fuccaro, reader in the modern history of the Middle East at Soas, University of London, “has been comparatively neglected by Middle Eastern and British imperial historians. “To the former until very recently, the Persian Gulf was a sort of nebulous periphery, often perceived as having little or no indigenous history worth looking into,” said Dr Fuccaro. “As to the latter…it is fair to say that only recently have imperial historians started to link, conceptually and geographically, the study of the Persian Gulf to that of British India and the Indian Ocean world. Both are crucial to understanding Persian Gulf history before Indian independence in 1947.”

Turkish genocide film: An epic too late?

Fatih Akin's film on tragic events of 1915 is no great cinematic oeuvre but marks turning point in Turkish discourse. In the early 1980s, I used to pay regular visits to the aging Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh (1892-1997) in Geneva. He was a legendary literary figure long before his death at the age of 105. A founding father of modern Persian fiction, Jamalzadeh came from an eminent revolutionary family and had soon left Iran for Europe where he spent most of his life writing some seminal works that inaugurated modernist fiction.

American professor translates best seller on Iran-Iraq war into English

Part autobiography and part oral history of the 8 year Iraqi imposed war against Iran in the 1980s "One Woman's War (Da)" became an instant national best-seller when it was published in Persian in 2008. The book has now been translated into English by Professor Paul Sprachman from Rutgers University. Iran's Permanent Mission to the United Nations invited the author for a book signing ceremony in New York, where Sprachman elaborated on why as an American he decided to translate the book. The book is the story of Zahra Hoseyni, whose Kurdish family found refuge in Iran after being expelled from their native Iraq. There are three parts to the book.

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