The Oldest Type of History

"History is a complicated knowledge that has to pass uneven and indirect routes in order to achieve a respective truth and we know how differently it has been found out through centuries.

In Chase and Escape (3)

Serge Barseghian: In 1967, Seyyed Mohammad Mehdi Jafari was freed from Ghasr Prison and stayed in Tehran. He then contacted the Mojahedin Kahlgh Organization April next year through Torab (Morteza) Haghshenas. Albeit the organization was then known as the Liberation Organization and conceivably Ayatollah Taleghani endorsed it as Iran's Mojahedin Khalgh Organization (MEK) among a number of proposed titles.

Basijis (Volunteer Soldiers) of Yesterday, Authors of Today

This note was supposed to be a review on No Title Yet, which is a volume of short stories by Ahmad Gholāmi; however, it turned out to be a restatement of more general issues regarding the literature of defense or the representation of Iran-Iraq War in our literature and its fate.

In Chase and Escape (2)

Serge Barseghian: "We were in the Ghasr Prison from the beginning of Nowruz (Persian new year, mid-March) to October 27. [Then,] from October 29 to January 7, I was in the Borazjan Fort. On January 9, I was taken to Yazd Prison and I'm still here," reads the last page of Dr Seyyed Mohammad Mehdi Jafari's personal Bank Melli diary written in the last day of 1344 (March 20, 1966).

The Consequences of World War II in Kerman

With Iran's occupation by the British and Russian forces and disruption of situation in the army as well as the release of prisoners, the effects of insecurity had spread everywhere especially in the roads in addition to famine and livelihood difficulties.

In Chase and Escape (1)

Armen and Avanesian: The Congress of the Islamic Associations of Iranian Students and Teachers in Karaj in September 1962 had four clergy guests: Ayatollah Jazayeri representing Ayatollah Milani, Ayatollah Taleqani, Allameh Tabatabaee, and Ayatollah Motahari.

Understanding History

I only travelled with the late Iraj Afshār once; we stayed in Leiden in Netherlands. I have a memoir of him from that trip which is of relevance to my topic of discussion. We were in Leiden for a seminar, and we were out for lunch at a restaurant.

Ayatollah Saeedi in Ezat Shahi’s Memories

10 June 2011, is 41st anniversary of Ayatollah Seyed Mohammad Reza Saeedi's martyrdom in Pahlavi’s torture chambers.

The Question of Modernism

In the realm of poetry creation and especially in his literary scholarship, Gheisar Aminpour was caught up in a highly conflictual situation about modernity and tradition which formed his main concern in the last decade of his life.

A Comparison between two Styles of Political Resistance, Imam Khomeini & Gandhi

One way to know great political figures is to compare their political life approach and especially their campaign style against enemies, their efforts for political renovation of their country, the time and the circumstances they emerged, and also whom, why and how they fought.