The Decency of Writing

In past and present Iran, we can divide writers to two main and many derivative branches: 1. Those who write for knowledge development and expansion of mankind’s knowledge and awareness and choose producing thoughts, especially pure, original and valuable thoughts as the aim of their living and writing; 2. Writers who write to gain money or fame and go on with their lives. This group of people has found writing as a job to make a living out of and use its lateral fame to show off in various meetings and gatherings. In other words they write to make their lives pass, unlike those from the first group who pass their lives to write and add up to others΄ and their own knowledge. So we can say that for the first group, thoughts and manifestation and appearance of that science is important, and the effort to produce and supply worthy living and for the second group, earthly living with its enticing features such as money and position and fame are important and living to attain them is meaningful and valuable.

Sharhe Esm Unveils

According to Iranian Oral History Website report; the book of Sharhe Esm: The Biography of Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Hosseini Khamenei (1939-1978) will be unveiled with the presence of The Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance and a number of the leading experts and interested people in contemporary history and literature of our country at Sooreh Hall in Arts Center on Saturday 4th July from 11 to 13. It is programmed that the invited experts examine this work from various aspects of historical, methodological and literary and discuss their points of view. The book of Sharhe Esm: The Biography of Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Hosseini Khamenei (1939-1979) by Hedayatollah Behboodi first released at this years Tehran Int. book fair by “Political Studies and Research Institute” and following great welcome of readers became extinct fast. The publisher has called this book at its introduction as the second edition of this work but as its implied the structure and text of the book has remained unchanged except for some specific names and details of some events that has been changed with the comments of supreme leader as the only aware person regarding those issues.

Active interview course runs at Isfahan University

The first oral history training course kicked off in Isfahan University with some 40 participants during April. The program was arranged by the history group of the university from April 22 to May 20, 2012 with 40 participants from a range of study fields and levels. The workshop was arranged at Dr Mehralizadeh Hall of the literature faculty. Having been prepared for months, 8 workshop sessions in 16 hours lasting 4 weeks were put on as a brief introduction to oral history and active interview mechanisms and was aimed at training expert forces for research projects of Isfahan University and other oral history centers in the country. Most of the participants were history students in post graduate levels besides students of seminary, librarianship, fiqh and Islamic law.

Fear in the USA

Detained Without Cause is a collection of oral history accounts by six New York based Muslim immigrants who were incarcerated following 9/11. None of these men had any connection to terrorism, and yet as their stories reveal, they were presumed guilty by the arresting officers, the FBI, the court system, the media and their communities. They were held without trial for several years in solitary confinement, in maximum security facilities where their human rights were systematically violated before being deported on trumped up immigration charges. Rory Creedon finds an important book with policy implications relevant far beyond the borders of the US.

An oral history: The 1998 U.S. Womens Open at Blackwolf Run

Hanging on the wall of the Blackwolf Run clubhouse is a celebratory photograph of Se Ri Pak and the 1998 U.S. Womens Open trophy. Forever 20, Pak smiles widely, exhaustively. It took the then-LPGA Tour rookie 92 holes to best American amateur Jenny Chuasiriporn to win her second consecutive major championship and start a revolution. That photo greets you as you walk down the stairs to the locker rooms at Blackwolf Run, where Se Ri Pak visited late this spring. Im Se Ri Pak, but Im basically born in 1998 U.S. Open at Blackwolf Run in Wisconsin, she said. Girls in South Korea were awoken in the dark hours or watched Paks victory on tape delay the next morning, then rushed to small driving ranges – stepping over all other interests. Since that Monday in Kohler, and including Paks other majors, a South Korean woman has won two LPGA Championships, two Kraft Nabisco Championships, three Womens British Opens and four U.S. Opens.

UVA to Explore President’s Botched Ouster in Class

University of Virginia students will explore the ouster and reinstatement of the school’s president, Teresa Sullivan, in an oral history class that aims to capture the drama of the 17-day conflict. Students in the course, which will be taught by two professors and labeled “Documenting U.Va.’s Future: Oral History of the Ouster and Reinstatement,” will collect interviews to compile a record of the saga for UVA’s library archive, according to a statement from the Charlottesville-based university. “It’s a teachable moment about higher-education policy issues, about the relationship between democracy and education, and about students’ roles in their own civic life,” Walter Heinecke, an associate professor in the Curry School of Education and one of the professors teaching the course, said in the statement.

Savannahs Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum seeking oral histories

The Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum is teaming with a social network group to create an oral history website of the struggle and its connection to Savannah. Stephanie Reaves, with remember.com, said Friday the site, which is already up and running, is redesigning its page and plans to be ready in two weeks. Reaves, a Savannah native and 2002 graduate of Savannah Country Day School, told a group of the Earl T. Shinhoster Leadership Institute it will “really generate the content around civil rights for future generations.” Billy Jamerson, board chair of the museum, said he envisions the website as a full discussion of the experiences of the era to include both black and white voices.

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