Oral History News of October-November 2023

Compiled by: Iranian Oral history Website
Translated by: Fazel Shirzad

2023-12-8

Note: According to Iranian Oral History website, "News of the Month" is the title of a series of reports on this website. These reports have a look at the news related to the topic of the site in written and virtual media. In the following, you will read news from October-November 2023.

►Historiography experts, in the consensus meeting of professors and experts in the oral history of the seminary and clergy, which was held on October 26 in Mashhad, considered the writing and development of the oral history of elites and great scholars who are still alive as a priority.

►Educational workshop "Why are war memories important?" was held on Tuesday, October 31, with the presence of Morteza Sarhangi in Yazd Art Field.

►The book on the oral history of the holy defense, narrated by Seyyed Masoud Khatami, titled "Doctor of Doulato Prison " has been prepared and made available to those interested on the IranSada website. The author of this book is Mohammad Reza Bagheri and it was published by the Holy Defense Documentation and Research Center in 2019.

►The book "Social History of Neka" (1921-1978) by Zubeidah Sortiji and Ali Rostamnejad Nesheli was unveiled. In 6 chapters and 352 pages, this book describes 57 years of Neka's contemporary history based on oral history and documentary research. This book was published in 2023 by Prasanesh Naveen.

►The recording and registration of the oral memories of the families of martyrs and veterans in Sistan and Baluchistan province started from the morning of November 11. Cultural and social vice president of Sistan and Baluchistan province Martyrs and Martyrs Foundation said: This program will start in Zahedan city and will continue in the north and south of the province until the end of the year.

►The bill of the research project on the narrative of the oral history of the neighborhoods of Isfahan was reviewed and approved on November 21 in the 109th public meeting of the Isfahan Islamic Council.

►In the 188th scientific and cultural Tuesday program of Astan Quds Razavi, on November 14, the oral history project of the central library of Astan Quds Razavi was unveiled. According to the news agency of Khorasan Razavi Center, the document cataloging expert of the Organization of Libraries, Museums and Astan Quds Razavi Document Center, in this ceremony, told a short history of the establishment of the Razavi Central Library, the formation of the oral history department of the document and press center of this organization in the end of 1998. the payment.

►Director General of Khuzestan Martyrs and Martyrs' Affairs Foundation said at the regional conference of deputy governors of Khuzestan, Lorestan, Kermanshah, Ilam, and Central provinces: the collection of oral histories of parents of martyrs, fighters, martyrs, and commanders of the holy defense has been specially started in the province; In such a way that last year two thousand oral histories and one thousand oral histories have been compiled this year.

►A memorandum of understanding was signed between the student organization and the oral history studies office of Yazd province (Art Hosseinieh), in line with the importance and necessity of educating the future generation of the country and in order to popularize cultural activities and with a special focus on students.

►The third training course of preliminary research and interviews in the oral history of the Islamic Revolution was held with the aim of training researchers and interviewers.

► The unveiling ceremony of the book "Oral History of Najaf Seminary; "Thoughts, currents and events" was held on Thursday, November 16, 2023, in the hall of Sheikh Tusi in the headquarters building of the Islamic Propaganda Office. The author of the book is Saeed Rostaazad, its publisher is Vice-Chancellor of Cultural Promotion (2023).

►The review meeting of the book “Inhabited Mansion ", the oral memoirs of Manouchehr Behnam, the first ambassador of Iran to the United Arab Emirates in the 1950s, with the aim of dealing with the history of Iranian diplomacy, was held on November 17, the fifth day of the 31st book week. Yaser Qazvini Haeri, a faculty member of Tehran University's Faculty of Literature and Humanities, said about the book "Inhabited Mansion” that memories have a special place in historical research, and researchers who are document oriented look more carefully at oral history. The book Maamour Mansion is the memoirs of Manouchehr Behnam, the first ambassador of Iran to the United Arab Emirates, written by Shafiqa Niknafs and Roya Mohammadlou, which was published by the Organization of National Library of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 2023.

►The third session of the series of oral history meetings with the title "Oral history of the seminary and clergy; Requirements, obstacles and solutions" was held on November 19 in the meeting hall of the Document Center in Qom. In this meeting, the oral history of the mosque and clergy was called the main specialty of the Qom center.

►The launch meeting of the book "Tale of the Truthful", the oral history of Hojjat-ul-Islam Muhammad Hasan Rastgu, was held on November 21 at the Rizvan Hall of the Vice-Chancellor of Cultural Promotion of the Islamic Propaganda Office of Qom.