Memoirs of Irān: Memoirs of a Sumayyah during the War

“The Resistance Literature and Art Bureau” has published many works on the role of women and first aiders during the Imposed War. Among these works are Dā: Memoirs of Seyyedeh Zahrā Hosseini, The Last Sunday: Memoirs of Ma`sūmeh Rāmhormozi, The Autumn of 1359 (1980): Memoirs of Zahrā Sotūdeh, Maryam`s Boots: Memoirs of Maryam Amjadi, From Chandeh-lā to the War: Memoirs of Shamsi Sobhāni, The Wayward Shoes: Memoirs of Soheilā Farjāmfar, This is my Home: Memoirs of Afsāneh Qāzizadeh, and Girls of O.P.D.: Memoirs of Minā Komāyi.

To Consider a Claim

The Realm of Memories is the title of written memories of Dr Fatimah Tabatabaee, the wife of the late Hadj Seyed Ahmad Khomeini and the Imam Khomeini’s daughter-in-law. The first edition was published in 1389 (2011) in 600 pages.

Khorramshahr in a long war: A reliable book about recapturing Khorramshahr

With a brief look at the cultural report card of the war, we find out that basically three publicizing, artistic and historical realms and flows, have been in charge of defining and explaining the Sacred Defense; the realm of public media -in written and oral forms (periodical newspapers and journals, radio and television,…) the realm of art and literature and the realm of cultural research and political-historical inquiry.

Our Crimes in Khorramshahr

Khorramshahr is a symbol of resistance, whom all Iranians are proud of. This symbol is first registered and recorded in hearts and minds informally and then in books and documents formally.

Documentation of Neighborhoods and Oral History Researches

In the last few decades, the expansion of cities have made the use of oral history necessary for the safeguarding of urban identity and the documentation of old urban textures. The documentation of old neighborhoods is among the research matters that today are subject to serious attention of researchers.

Iraqi Memoirs of War: A National Apology

Shreds of what Happened” is a three-volume memoir by Iraqi militaries collected and prepared by Morteza Shahangi and ornamented with graphic works by Kurosh Parsanejad. The book was debuted last year and its reprint was released with a new cover design in 101 pages. 2500 copies of the work are published by Sooreye Mehr Publications. The book’s reprint is the 592nd works published by the Bureau for Literature and Art of Resistance at Arts Center (Hozeh-ye Honari).

Omidvar Brothers Travelogue

Omidvar Brothers Travelogue is book familiar to historians and tourists of Iran and this very familiarity makes the review of this book a hard thing to do. If we are about to tend to this book the regular way, we have repeated what has been repeated many times and finally we make him push the button and pass the oral history webpage. This matter and also the existence of Omidvar Brothers' website, their museum in the Sa'dabad Palaces complex and many reports about their travelogue on internet makes us set foot on the Omidvar Brothers' world with wittiness and a new point of view which at first looks for the incentives of such journey rather than the journey itself.

Stories of "Dogs"

Stories of "Dogs", Interviews with members of the PRT-ERP, provide eight specially selected interviews collected from an even broader body of evidence. Two of them have been previously published which are difficult to obtain. All were selected because it conveyed the interviewees had great relevance beyond the issue of armed struggle and PRT-ERP.

Catching Stories: A Practical Guide to Oral History

Oral history levels the playing field of historical research” (vii), the authors assert, and this practical guide does indeed show how it can be beneficial to anyone interested in transforming the oral history of their family or community group from an idea to reality.

Storie Orali: Racconto, Immaginazione, Dilogo

No contemporary oral historian (at either the praxis or the theory ends of the spectrum, which this author has never divorced) can have ignored Alessandro Portelli’s contributions to the field: for example, The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories: Form and Meaning in Oral History, 1990;
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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.