Hiroshima Travelogue - Episode 14

We should have arrived at the train station about noon. We had some time to go for shopping before the train moved. We went to a mall we had not been able to see before. It wouldn’t open before ten so we idle about a little while. There was this 100-yen shop which sold everything from a washing mitt to a shovel at 100 yens. We turned about in the shop for an hour. I also sneaked in an Adidas shop to buy myself a discounted shirt. There were some other shops with x% off prices. I was beaten by the prices with the feeble currency I had with me.

Hiroshima Travelogue -Episode 13

Today, Chokogu Daily released an article reporting on our meeting with the Hiroshima Bombing survivors. Only God and, of course, the Japanese knew what the article had written about.

Hiroshima Travelogue- Episode 12

We started out for the Peace Museum earlier than the other mornings. We wore specially designed shirts and hats with emblems of Tehran Peace Museum on them. It wasn’t very long to the Peace Park as it would take the slowest of us some 20 minutes to get there. We were supposed to be there before 8.

Hiroshima Travelogue - Episode 11

We move out of the Chugoku daily; exactly called the Chugoku Shimbun daily. They say it circulates some 700,000 copies every day. It will publish an article about the meeting between members of [Iran’s] Peace Museum (us) and survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima. Here we go to the Peace Park.

Hiroshima Travelogue - Episode 10

After a breakfast, we set out for a visit from Chugoku Shimbun daily. We gather at the entrance of the inn; there is no more a fat driver waiting for us. The bus is changed as is its driver. It is not a long journey.

Hiroshima Travelogue- Episode 9

We are taken to another beach the next morning to visit another isle. There are vessels to carry only human passengers from the beach to the isle. The vessels which were used for going to the Econojima isle could carry cars as well. The vessel breaks through the beautiful water to the isle. The green heights of the isle can be seen from the vessel. A little further, a religious sign can be seen in the water near the isle.

Hiroshima Travelogue: Episode 8

In the evening, we are invited to a restaurant. A relatively small part of the restaurant is already prepared for us. The former president of the Hiroshima Peace Museum and members of the MOCT are with us at the restaurant. A colorful dinner set is prepared for us in one corner; most of the stuff is new to us in the dinner except for the potatoes, fish and pasta. I take some of each. As the dinner is over, and as this is a routine in such gatherings, each of the guests introduces himself. After the introductions, Ms. Soya, head of the MOCT delegation, delivers a speech and repeats some parts.

Our lessons with Martin Luther King: Eight students recall a special class

Atlanta (CNN) -- Martin Luther King Jr. taught exactly one class his entire life. It was in 1962 in Atlanta -- a year before he would give his "I Have a Dream" speech in the nation's capital. King had just moved back to his hometown to become co-pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church, where his father was in the pulpit. The church was such an influential voice, the King family was considered royalty in the city's African-American community.

Hiroshima Travelogue - Episode 7

We get off the train at Hiroshima Station. Awaiting us is a welcoming Japanese delegation at the platform. They hand each one of us a beautiful flower; we happen to care more about the small flower than our luggage. They represent a non-profit organization (called MOCT), and will also be our host at the August-6 fete mounted in Hiroshima to mark the anniversary of the atomic bombardment

Hiroshima Travelogue - Episode 6

A set of pictures get your attention at the newly-built hall of Iran’s embassy. The structure was added to the Iranian embassy’s complex about 11 years earlier. The set comprises three historical shots, two Persian and Japanese captions and a badge; Nasseredin Shah, Masaharu Yoshida and Magoichirō Yokoyama are in the shots, and the badge is the Iranian Order of the Lion and the Sun. The caption reads as follows:
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Book Review

Kak-e Khak

The book “Kak-e Khak” is the narration of Mohammad Reza Ahmadi (Haj Habib), a commander in Kurdistan fronts. It has been published by Sarv-e Sorkh Publications in 500 copies in spring of 1400 (2022) and in 574 pages. Fatemeh Ghanbari has edited the book and the interview was conducted with the cooperation of Hossein Zahmatkesh.

Is oral history the words of people who have not been seen?

Some are of the view that oral history is useful because it is the words of people who have not been seen. It is meant by people who have not been seen, those who have not had any title or position. If we look at oral history from this point of view, it will be objected why the oral memories of famous people such as revolutionary leaders or war commanders are compiled.

Daily Notes of a Mother

Memories of Ashraf-al Sadat Sistani
They bring Javad's body in front of the house. His mother comes forward and says to lay him down and recite Ziarat Warith. His uncle recites Ziarat and then tells take him to the mosque which is in the middle of the street and pray the funeral prayer (Ṣalāt al-Janāzah) so that those who do not know what the funeral prayer is to learn it.

A Critique on Oral history of War Commanders

“Answering Historical Questions and Ambiguities Instead of Individual-Organizational Identification”
“Oral history of Commanders” is reviewed with the assumption that in the field of war historiography, applying this method is narrated in an advancing “new” way, with the aim of war historiography, emphasizing role of commanders in creation of its situations and details.