Oral History News of September-October 2024
Compiled by: Iranian Oral history Website
Translated by: Fazel Shirzad
2024-11-4
Note: According to Iranian Oral History Website, "News of the Month" is the title of a series of reports on this website. These reports have a look at the news related to the topic of the website in written and virtual media. In the following, you will read news from October-November 2024.
►The book "White Butterflies" written by Abbas Heydari, with the subject of oral history of women in the military medical field during the holy defense era, was published by Saro publications. This book is the story of about 40 self-sacrificing women during the holy defense era, who were voluntarily sent to war zones in the guise of doctors, nurses, pharmacists, paramedics, and medics.
►Isfahan Academic Jihad held a meeting titled "Dialogue with the Past, an introduction to the oral history of Isfahan's neighborhoods", from the series of Isfahan cultural identity meetings.
►The meeting of the Committee of Documents and Documents of the Coordinating Council for the Preservation and Publication of the Values of the Sacred Defense of Khorasan Razavi on the topic of the pathology of the oral history of the Holy Defense with the presence of the General Director of the Preservation of the Works and Publication of the Values of the Holy Defense of Khorasan Razavi, the Director of the Encyclopaedia and Document Center of the General Directorate for the Preservation of the Works of the Holy Defense of the Province and Collective of researchers and experts in this field, 24 September was held in Sheikh Bahai Hall of Astan Quds Razavi Islamic Research Foundation.
►At the same time as Holy Defense Week, the four-volume collection of oral history of the Holy Defense era titled "Toward the Qaf Mountain" and the book "Venus Became the Opponent of the Moon"" was unveiled at the Ministry of Health on the 25th of September.
►The book "Softer than Feathers; oral history of Overdub" written by Sadegh Vafaei, was published in the second edition at the price of 395,000 Tomans. This book was published for the first time in 2020.
►In the 219th scientific and cultural Tuesday program of Astan Quds Razavi, oral history interviews of Khorasan Police Command and the oldest Nazmieh magazine of Mashhad titled "Daily Information" were unveiled.
►The review meeting of the book "Knowledge in the Battle" was held on Monday, 14 October at the cultural center of Dr. Kazemi Ashtiani Organization of Academic Jihad, University of Tehran. This book contains narratives about the presence and scientific and cultural services of academic jihad in eight years of holy defense.
►The program "Road", as one of the new television productions of Aftab channel, is broadcasted every week on Aftab channel, focusing on the representation of the identity and oral history of Central Province and focusing on important industrial and development events of the province.
►The director of documents and documents of the Holy Defense of Khuzestan said: The oral history movement of Khuzestan is one of the most important projects of the history of the revolution in the field of the holy defense that is being carried out.
►Director of Yazd Province National Library and Document Center, stating that the history of the province's electricity industry and its development is one of the important and attractive topics for documentation, suggested that the oral history project of the province's electricity industry should be started and all its documents and documentation should be collected.
►Oral history training workshops were held in different cities such as Yazd, Zanjan and Khorramabad.
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