A Childhood Memento5- A Memoir by Dr. Anvar Khame’ee

was the best student in class. Four or five months after the beginning of the school year, when I just learnt a couple of alphabet letters, I became bald.

Democracy: the Rule of Nobodies

In the article Oral history, Nobody’s History, in issue No. 10, I talked about the people who make history but their identities remain anonymous. The most significant and miraculous thing ever happened to nobody is the development of the concept “democracy” which in its Latin origin means the rule of demos. Demos in Latin mean common people, the people which Quran calls them nas.

Ayatollah Taleghani at Hedayat Mosque

There is no doubt that Hedayat mosque in Tehran, located at the conjunction of Jomhouri and Lalehzar Streets played a significant role in religious-political activities before the Islamic revolution.

A Childhood Memento 4- A Memoir by Nasrollah Karimi

Back then, I used to work in the vocational school of the factory. High tables had huge clamps and the small ones had small clamps. I used to place a plastic petrol container next to high tables and stand on top of it, in order to reach the table. When I was filing, the file was right in front of my eyes. The students used to laugh about this.

The shifts in the Middle East and the Issue of Oil

We know that issues such as Iran's 19th August coup in 1953 or the consecutive coups in Iraq were all closely related to oil issues, but I have tried, in the present essay, to assess the topic through a novel, or maybe an overlooked, point of view.

CIA Narrates the Coup

As one of most important and crucial political events of Iranian contemporary history, the coup of August 19, 1953 is considered the origin of many bitter historic incidents of this country.

Forty years of experience in interviewing

The article has started by relying on this point that: "the method of historiography in Islamic countries is principally oral history". Then the writer addresses definitions about the concept of "oral history".

The Travelogue of Martyr Sayad Shirazi (by Mohsen Kazemi)

In our country, Iran, the practice of oral history is enmeshed with the war. One could even say that the tradition of oral history in Iran was established because of the war. Maybe, this approach was used to record the history of war and later, they realized that it has other functionalities as well.

A childhood Memento3- A Memoir of Dr. Javad Hamidis memory

The very first day I went to school, the teacher handed me an alphabet book and told me: "copy the alphabet. Let's see if you can write." When I did, he kicked me in my back; I fell down and my nose bled. I was utmost sad.

A childhood Memento2- A Memoir of Houshang Golshiri

I grew up in a working class family who lived in two or sometimes three rooms. On the way to school we were usually bare footed. When we got older we wore wooden shoes called Karcup. We used to play mostly around our house. When we were about fifteen, we had three soccer fields. We spent most of our time playing there. What was special about working class houses was that they were all identical.
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From Javanrud to Piranshahr

The Memoir of Reza Mohammadinia
The book From Javanrud to Piranshahr recounts the life and struggles of Commander Reza Mohammadinia, who spent part of the Iran–Iraq War in the western and northwestern regions of the country. During those years, he held responsibilities such as deputy commander of the Seventh Region of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), acting head of the Javanrud district, service on the southern fronts, director of ...
A Critical and Scholarly Study of Dr. Hossein Alaei’s Two-Volume Book:

Tactical and Strategic Analysis and Limitations

The present paper, entitled “A Critical and Scholarly Study of Dr. Hossein Alaei’s Two-Volume Book: Tactical and Strategic Analysis and Limitations”, is a research work that examines and evaluates the two-volume book “An Analytical History of the Iran-Iraq War”. In this study, the strengths and weaknesses of the work are analyzed from the perspectives of content critique, methodology, and sources.

Clarifying the Current Situation; Perspectives of the Oral History Website

The definition of a “journalist” and the profession of “journalism” is not limited to simply “gathering,” “editing,” and “publishing breaking news.” Such an approach aligns more with the work done in news agencies and news websites. But now, after years of working in the field of books for various news agencies, newspapers, and magazines, when I look back, I realize that producing and compiling content for ...