Oral History of Mashhad Subway in the First Station

Expansion of population and cities have led to the subject of municipal traffic and become the most important concern for municipal managers. Subway is one of the underground public transportation systems that has an outstanding role in transporting of passengers and obviating the traffic jam.

Looking at the student movement in Mashhad (1)

Naqi Lotfi’s narration of student activities in Mashhad before Revolution

After the coup of August 19, 1953(28 Mordad), Iran's student movement emerged vividly and through protests and demonstrations of Tehran University students, it was actually entered to the fight scene. The day after the coup of 28 Mordad a demonstration occurred at Tehran University in support of Dr. Mossadegh (1), and subsequently student’s protests was widespread. Following students’ protests to the imprisonment and trial of Dr. Mossadegh and Dr. Shayan and engineer Razavi, The first widespread protests lead to the National Resistance Movement (2) initiative On October 8th 1953 (16 Mehr 1332), and ...

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The second question we may ask is whether it is fortuitous that both our blocks of narrative center on a particular type of episode, the foundation of a dynasty, on origins and accessions. This at least might seem a genuine Persian trait that has had a continuing impact on world literature from Xenophon’s Cyropaedia onwards.(

Mashhad in Aban 1357

The city of Mashhad in Aban 1357 had witnessed the bitter events and would experience excitement times of Revolution. Increasing of workers and employees’ strike, the resignations of the governor-general, marching and shooting at the different places of shrine are the most important events that have caused the reaction of Iranian scholars and people.

Herodotus and Oral History 5

The earlier analysis of Greek traditions will have made some points clear. First, the investigation should not start from the historical reliability of the traditions available to Herodotus, let alone from the truth or falsehood of single statements or episodes; these are secondary questions, which can only be considered after the types of tradition have been established.

Oral History of the Cultural Front of Islamic Revolution; a New Realm of Revolution Historiography

The title of cultural front of the revolution correctly encompasses all cultural and artistic realms which are ignored in other historiographies. The movement of the cultural front of Islamic revolution includes theater and chanson groups in mosques, schools and other bases, libraries, painting and graphic groups, story and poem literary circles, wall-newspapers and even periodicals and booklets, local radios and documentary films making, the educative activities of pedagogy teachers, teachers of literacy movement, NGOs, Islamic societies, members of Jihad Sazandegi [construction movement] and all those who have born the burden of revolution in extensive cultural and artistic activities. But high schools active in the first decades of the revolution are one of the most comprehensive cultural and artistic circles which almost encompass all above activities.

In Memory of Revolutionary Upsurge of Women in Mashhad in January 7, 1978 against the Pahlavi Regime

January 7, 1978 is a new chapter in the history of the Islamic Revolution in Mashhad city; since it was the day that a group of women orchestrated a demonstration against Pahlavi regime in Mashhad. Women’s participation in political society was an objection to Pahlavi regime and demanding freedom of women in prison. However, due to security issues and strong control on media it wasn’t well reflected in the media but presence of women in this demonstration was a turning point for the fight of people in Mashhad.

Why historiography from below is important?

”, Edward Palmer Thomson once called Christophe Hill “A professor beyond an old Oxford College”. Thomson is above Grand Theorist of History from Below in Britain. His impact on studies on subordinates in India is well known to everyone. However, the composition of his impact on Middle East is conscious.

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If the importance of aristocratic tradition in Athens is clear, elsewhere it is less obvious. Spartan tradition, even in so far as it relates to the kings, seems to be unconnected with families, but rather to give an official polis view of the past which it would be easier to attribute to a group aware of the need for social cohesion.

The Year Last Wednesday

The last Wednesday of the year is reminder of a sense of nostalgia which a great part of it is related to an ancient heritage, preserved by our ancestors and great men through oral narrations. This heritage now comprises a part of cultural believes of ethnic groups. Reviewing the past memories, the last Wednesday of the year has always been considered as a pure and sacred day in my mind.