The Khomeini Era Begins

There is hope for peaceful change as the Ayatullah returns from exile The chartered Air France 747 circled over the city and past the nearby Elburz Mountains three times before settling down gently on the tarmac of Tehran's Mehrabad Airport.

Khomeini Power

When the chartered Air France 747 jetliner appeared in the pink haze of Teheran's morning sky, the rhythmic chant of "Allahu akbar"-"God is great"- spread from the airport throughout the city. The plane landed, and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, 78, set foot on Iranian soil for the first time in fourteen years.

A Report on the Oral History Project for Female Political Activists

The Oral History Project for Female Political Activists during the Second Pahlavi Era and Islamic Revolution is being carried out since 2006. The project is underway by me on behalf of the Center for Publishing Imam Khomeini Works. It has been carried out in two phases. The first phase has been interviews with ten women most of whom political prisoners which has been compiled in 500 pages and is under printing.

New Directions in Palestinian Oral History

In different ways, these four books represent how Palestinian oral history is breaking new ground while continuing to document the nakbah (what is known as the catastrophe, the displacement of the indigenous Palestinian Arabs with the formation of the state of Israel on May 15, 1948).

Online Scrapbook Site Collects World War II Memories

Family history scrapbook company 1000memories will donate veterans' oral histories to the Library of Congress IDG News Service — An online family scrapbook company in San Francisco, 1000memories, is collecting oral histories from World War II veterans in Yountville, California, to share with the Library of Congress.

The Impact of Official Discourse on Women’s Narratives of Iran-Iraq War

This article is an extract of a research with the same title which examines how women’s narratives of Iran-Iraq war are affected by official discourse of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The main hypothesis of this study is that women, in their narratives of this war, are unconsciously influenced by the official discourse of the society. In fact, women’s knowledge about war has been shaped by the structure of the official discourse of the society. Theoretical frame work of this article is based on Norman Fairclough’s theory on critical discourse analysis.

Reflections OnThe Practice of Oral History: Retrieving What We Can From an Earlier Critique

Oral history research as an academic discipline emerged in the 1940s and 1950s; this article explores its development and continuing challenges. During its first decades, the main focus was on the production of documents and new information, especially on the lives of people previously ignored by historians.

How to Do Things with Words: African Oral History and Its Textual Incarnations

The practice of oral history has been a foundational component of the discipline of African history since its postcolonial inception during the early 1960s.

Which is more risky - Memory or Imaginations?

Which factor put you on the dangerous grounds: memory or imagination? But what is meant by “the dangerous ground”? Evidently it is a kind of danger, created whether by memory or by imagination, that can affect any independent phenomenon – tradition or power.

Too much Hitler and the Henrys

History matters. Most intelligent adults, no matter how limited their education, understand that. Even if they have never formally studied the subject, they are likely to take an interest in historical topics. Historians on television – notably Simon Schama and David Starkey – draw big audiences (the book of Schama’s History of Britain sold more than a million copies).