4th academic book fair kicks off
20 November 2011
The 4th academic book fair inaugurated this morning with the attendance of the deputy minister of Islamic Guidance and Culture for Cultural Affairs Bahman Dorri as well as the secretary of Book Week's headquarters Mohammad Allahyari.
IBNA: The academic book fair is held by the cultural association of academic book publishers while the publishers of academic book participate as well.
The book fair, which will run for six days, is mainly held in order to equip the libraries and the books will be presented with a 50% discount.
The book fair will display 30,000 book titles of 350 academic book publishers.
The 4th academic book fair inaugurated this morning at the perennial site of Tehran Municipality Exhibitions in Goftogu Park and will run for six days.
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- The Third Regiment: Memoirs of an Iraqi Prisoner of War Doctor - 37
- 374th Night of Remembrance - 1
- A Pilgrim's Narrative of Post-War Mashhad
100 Questions/ 34
To what extent are we allowed to use narrative techniques (however simple) in compiling an oral history text?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 answers will be published on this portal by the end of the week.
Validation: Challenges and Necessities
Where does truth stand in oral history? How can the correctness of a narrative be recognized? Does fact-checking matter? If there is exaggeration in the reporting of some accounts, how can it be detected? Is it possible to record an event accurately through the recording of a narrative? Readers and users of oral history works are often faced with these questions, and sometimes encounter doubts about some oral history works.From Revolutionary Circles to the Military Arm of the Islamic Government
In those days, it became clear that certain institutions had to be established very quickly—institutions suited to the temperament, expectations, and lingering aspirations of the younger generation; young people who had been politically active before the Revolution and, in some cases, had been directly entangled in arrests, imprisonment, ...Authenticating Oral History: From Possibility to Necessity
The use of oral history as one of the historical sources has long been one of the principal challenges facing oral historians and those who employ it in contemporary historiography. The development of international standards for oral history, as well as IRIB standards, was intended to address the criticisms raised in this regard. The relationship between Diplomatics in written records and oral history is reciprocal.
