Documentary Pathology of the US Embassy Documents

The Necessity of Scientific Rereading and Content Analysis of Documents

More than four decades have passed since the publication of the first collections of documents from the US Embassy in Tehran. However, despite the relatively easy access to this treasure trove of documents, systematic research exploitation of it has not been adequate. We still do not have a “comprehensive picture” of the content of these 11,000 documents.

Experts Answer to Oral History Questions

100 Questions / 42

What is the importance of the narrator and interviewers shared understanding of the past in oral history?

We asked several researchers and activists in the field of oral history to express their views on oral history questions. The names of each participant are listed at the beginning of their answers, and the text of all the answers will be published on this portal by the end of the week.

Theories about oral history narrated by artificial intelligence

Theory Five: The borderline status of the source in oral history

Oral history, more than being an accumulation of narrative, is a field of methodical dialogue between memory, power, ethics, and representation. In the meantime, one of the challenges for researchers in this field is to move from “interview report” to “theoretical structure”; a question to which each expert, based on his or her experience and intellectual ...

Saro Yaqubian's Memories

Saro Yaqubian, from the Armenian minority and a fighter in the Holy Defense, was a guest on the 287th Shab-e Khatereh (Remembrance Night) program (January 2018). He spoke about his time in captivity. Yaqubian said: "My brother went to serve in 1985. I was also deployed in 1986. My brother served in the gendarmerie on Minoo Island.

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