Shariati and contemporary history of Iran

Student Movement and Shariati’s Thoughts from the Perspective of Naqi Lotfi

The book of Shariati and contemporary history of Iran: student movement and Shariati’s thoughts from the perspective of Naqi Lotfi, is a compilation of oral history interviews in which its compilers are seeking to collect and deliver student movement and Shariati’s thoughts from the perspective of one of his students. This book has been published with efforts of Gholamhossein Noee and Gholamreza Azari Khakestar, by Beinolnahrein publishing in thousands copies and at a price of 200,000 Rials.

Historical Veneration of Thinking in Iran under Qajar Dynasty

The way any nation understands its history and appreciates its values, depends on how it regards its identity and revers its traditional practices.

Khorramabad Student Choir Oral History

Along with Prophet Mohammad Army

In 1985 Khorramabad Student Choir could attract and gather talented and promising students to the group in a short time by Isa Sepahvani with the cooperation of life skills teachers.

'Bukhara’ cherishes the memory of Shahriar Adl

IBNA- The Persian Culture and Art Magazine Bukhara dedicated its 107th issue to the memory of the outstanding Iranologist and archeologist, the late Shahriar Adl who passed away on June 21.

Pursuing Jafar Qoli: From Shah Jahan to Hezar Masjed

Oral literature has suffered oblivion especially amongst those groups and tribes that most of their history, literature and culture have been transferred from one generation to another in the form of popular story narrations.

At the Court of Beloved (Dar Astan-e Janaan) and Some Parts of Administrative Reforms

The memories of one's administrative service years could be related to some aspects of administrative organization of an institute or a department. Often in these kinds of memoirs books, the authors try to provide experience, jobs and events that occurred during their administrative service periods.

A Golden Page of “Mashhad Theater History”

“History of Mashhad Theater from Constitutional to Islamic Revolutions” by Ali Najafzadeh is the latest book on Mashhad. It was published in October 2014 by Ansar publications in 440 pages.

“The Oral History of Sacrifice and Martyrdom” was published

The collection of the articles of 9th Iranian Oral History Conference is published by the title of “The Oral History of Sacrifice and Martyrdom”(Tarikh-e Shafahi-ye Isar va Shahadat). The 9th professional session and the educational workshop of Iranian Society of Oral History was ...

Best Interview Techniques Published in “Professional Chat”

The audience in “Professional Chat” book is not an oral historian but is the Interviewer of Oral Memories. Instead of looking into documents and evidence we located people who had created events or witnessed incidents directly. Applicable key points were published by Reza Mostafavi in Professional Chat regarding interviews for oral memories. The book consists of eighty sections with different topics such as “setting the point of view right”, “people and their memories are two groups”, “focus on mutual emotions”,...

Face to face with Ibrahim Golestan

Writing with Camera

Writing with Camera is the title of a controversial book by Parviz Jahed in a long dialogue with filmmaker and author of the style in the period from June 2002 to December 2003 with Ibrahim Golestan. In his PHD dissertation, Parviz Jahed, in his book is trying to analyze the origins of “New Wave” in Iran’s cinema in the period of 1959 to 1969 and focuses on three prominent and pioneer directors in elite and unconventional cinema of Iran who are Ibrahim Golestan, Farokh Ghaffari and Fereydoun Rahnama.
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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.