No. 636    |    18 May 2024
   

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We must be Awake while You Are Asleep

We wanted to set an exhibition, and I got a mission to come to Nasser Khosro Street, Haj Naib alley, where most of the publications and religious bookstores were located in there. At that time, the market for these types of books was extremely busy, unlike now, that it is not. Books encouraging struggle were at the top of books read by young people and students.

Review of the Series of Interviews about “Material Intellectual Property Rights of Oral History Works”

From Ignoring the Narrator’s Rights to Impose One’s Preferences in the Text

In the last months of 1402 SH, Iranian Oral History Website (oral-history.ir) conducted and published a series of interviews titled “Material Intellectual Property Rights of Oral History Works” with publishers, ...

The 351st Night of Memory

My brother is still present

The 351st show of Night of Memory was held on 4th of Aban 1402 (October 26, 2023) in Sooreh Hall of the Art Centre of the Islamic Revolution. The narrators of the show, Brigadier General Ali Asghar Keshavarz, Nasser Sharifian and Mr. Navidi recounted their memoirs about martyr Abbas Rostami who was a wrestler and the person ...

Boycott

A memory from Asadollah Tajrishi

At the beginning of my arrival in Evin Prison, I was taken to solitary confinement as always and after a few days, I was transferred to the public cell. The public cells had been located in two floors. The arrangement of these cells in the cells of 1355 and 1356 was such that on the lower floor, there was a ward ...

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Da (Mother) 97

The Memoirs of Seyyedeh Zahra Hoseyni

Seyyedeh Zahra Hoseyni

Translated from the Persian with an Introduction by Paul Sprachman

Persian Version (2008)

Sooreh Mehr Publishing House

English Version (2014)

Mazda Publishers

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Chapter Twenty-Eight: Heavy Fighting, Paralyzed, Evacuation

Conditions had become so dangerous and the Iraqis had advanced so far there was no longer any need for me to beg to be taken to the front.


 
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