Mandelas book hits Iranian bookshelves

Conversations with Myself by Nelson Mandela has been rendered into Persian by Ali Akbar Abdolrashidi. Etelaat publication center has released the book in the Iranian market.

Local educators participate in national oral history project

Eight-year-old Harleé Patrick's wide, frightened eyes caught the heart of her teacher as she walked into class at T.C. Walker Elementary School in Gloucester.

Franco’s Spain revealed from the inside out

Martha Heard of Albuquerque will chat about her long-running oral-history project in a talk titled “Revolution Within a Civil War” at 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 11, at the National Hispanic Cultural Center.

$225,000 grant to sustain Flight 93 oral history project

The Friends of Flight 93 National Memorial has received a $225,000 grant from The Heinz Endowments to sustain the Flight 93 Oral History and Documentation Project directed by the National Park Service for the next three years.

Shapur Bakhtiars Memoir to be discussed on radio

Saye-Roshan radio program will discuss Shapur Bakhtiars Memoir. The book contains his interview with Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies.

Teamed memory telling shields Sacred Defense from distortion

Head of Sacred Defense Values and Relics Preservation and Publication Foundation said the center is seriously considering expansion of teamed memory telling.

Oral History Project Captures Stories of Haiti Earthquake Survivors

Two years after Haiti was rocked by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake near Port au Prince, a New York University (NYU) graduate student and staff at the University of Kentucky (UK) Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History are teaming up to capture, save and share the stories of survivors of the terrible event and its aftermath.

Phale highly accomplished poet and cultural enthusiast

Meet Morake Phale, a poet and cultural enthusiast with a fascinating historical inclination. The 77-year-old from Mmathubudukwane-Dikalakaneng in Kgatleng East has never been to school but his knowledge of the oral history of Batswana tribes, especially Bakgatla, gives him that aura of an accomplished scholar.

Iranians to read Gyorgy Lukacs political notes

Gyorgy Lukacss political notes taken during the years 1919 to 1929 are converted into Persian by Omid Mehregan and will be released in a volume entitled as Blooms Theses.

Irans National Archives house to Sacred Defense docs, pictures

The donated documents collection of martyr Ali Ghouchanis family has been added to the National Archive by the experts of the National Library and Archives of Iran.
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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.