Book review: "On the Road''

These memories’ color is gray!

"On the Road"* This title for most audiences has just the same sense of "who moves to the destination." But these two words have additional specialized meaning. "On the Road" is a military terminology of artillery which is sent by espial to artillery so that artillery find out exchanged information has been approved.

Book review: Oral History and its Status in Iran’s Contemporary Historiography

The writers’ reflection on modern conception of oral history

According to the website of Iranian Oral History, a meeting on reviewing and criticizing the book “Oral History and its Status in Iran’s Contemporary Historiography (1979 – 2006)” was held in the Methodology and Historiography Group of Islamic History Research Center on Monday 11th of April 2016. It was attended by Morteza Rasouli Pour, the book’s critic and Dr. Mehdi Abolhassani Taraqi, one of the two writers of the book. The book has been co-authored by Dr. Morteza Nouraee and Dr. Mehdi Abolhassan Taraqi in 430 pages and has been published by the research center in 2015.

Two books at a glance

The untold stories of commander and memoirs about commander

The victory of the Islamic revolution, struggle against anti-revolutionary forces and then the Iraqi imposed war against Iran each of which cover stories and events some of which have become public and have been talked about, but very little or even nothing has been talked about some others.

Looking at the narration; "My house is here"

The reality of war from an eyewitness

 War is a grim story. There is no different where it is occurred in the world, it is bitter and painful anyway. Common people enter unintentionally from an everyday life to living in a state of war. Some people continue their life and some ones involve themselves in war. Not only as a fighter, but also as common people who feel the consequences of the war wholeheartedly.

Experiences and Reflections in Oral History by Morteza Rasoulipoor

Essential book for formulating oral history

Formulating experiences and reflections in a didactic work

As it is appeared from its title, the book is a didactic one. This book "Experiences and Reflections in Oral History'' examines activities or in other words, levels related to oral history such as epistemological basics, finding subject, framing questions, interviews technics, demodulation, processing and setting. It begins with author introduction and ''finding subject and preparing for interview '' is one of its primary chapters.

SHOOTING UNDER FIRE: The World of the War Photographer

Assembled by Peter Howe, SHOOTING UNDER FIRE: The World of the War Photographer brings together the works of 10 extraordinary photographers, this master's class on war photography and includes more than 150 b&w and color photos, annotated with descriptions of their subjects and with very personal reflections from practitioners like magazine contract photographers James Nachtwey (Time) and Ron Haviv (Newsweek) about the nature of their work.

About the Mostoufi Dead-end

Kerman in Mirza Mostafakhan Mostoufi Kermani’s look

An old, faded and rusty plaque has been set on the part of a wall. It contains the name of alley: ‘Mostoufi Dead-end’. On the other part of the wall the same name has been written with chalk. The picture of this brick wall along with the writing on it has formed the cover of a book, whose name is the same: Mostoufi Dead-end

Book Review:

Wisdom and Politics

"Parts of Dr. Nasr's memories are not well-substantiated"

"Wisdom and Politics" is an oral history account of prominent Iranian philosopher and thinker Dr. Hussein Nasr's memories of the Pahlavi regime and the Islamic Revolution.

Publication of the first issue of Oral History Journal in Iran

Attention to oral history, carelessness to the press techniques

‘Oral History journal’ is one of those publications which is realized as a specialized one, as soon as you take it in hand. Setting the contents together, how they are expressed and even the number of pages which is dedicated to each topic, displays it very well.

From the State Look at August 18 coup to the Relation Between Land Reforms & the US

Review: Ardeshir Zahedi Memoirs

In the book’s preface, Ardeshir Zahedi says, “History is written from different viewpoints and those who are born after a historic period, have the right to get familiar with it beyond a narration and interpretation in order to judge better.”
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I went on a Hajj pilgrimage in the early 1340s (1960s). At that time, few people from the army, gendarmerie and police went on a pilgrimage to the holy Mashhad and holy shrines in Iraq. It happened very rarely. After all, there were faithful people in the Iranian army who were committed to obeying the Islamic halal and haram rules in any situation, and they used to pray.

A section of the memories of a freed Iranian prisoner; Mohsen Bakhshi

Programs of New Year Holidays
Without blooming, without flowers, without greenery and without a table for Haft-sin , another spring has been arrived. Spring came to the camp without bringing freshness and the first days of New Year began in this camp. We were unaware of the plans that old friends had in this camp when Eid (New Year) came.

Attack on Halabcheh narrated

With wet saliva, we are having the lunch which that loving Isfahani man gave us from the back of his van when he said goodbye in the city entrance. Adaspolo [lentils with rice] with yoghurt! We were just started having it when the plane dives, we go down and shelter behind the runnel, and a few moments later, when the plane raises up, we also raise our heads, and while eating, we see the high sides ...
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The Arab People Committee

Another event that happened in Khuzestan Province and I followed up was the Arab People Committee. One day, we were informed that the Arabs had set up a committee special for themselves. At that time, I had less information about the Arab People , but knew well that dividing the people into Arab and non-Arab was a harmful measure.
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