What I didn't know about Tiananmen Square
Rowena Xiaoqing He’s new book 'Tiananmen Exiles' offers fresh insight into the challenges that exiled Chinese student leaders faced after they escaped from China. As a reporter I covered the Beijing massacre of 1989 and then studied the issue for years afterward. I was beginning to think that I had nothing more to learn about it.Review: College students illustrate battles Latinos face in ‘The Latino Generation’
The Latino Generation (Voices of the New America) by Mario T. Garcia is made up of 13 oral history interviews with Latino college graduates.Review: Bold They Rise
Rather than tell the story of the program through the eyes of one astronaut, they recount the program from the perspectives of more than thirty astronauts who flew on shuttle missions.Oral History Forum d Histoire Orale Special Issue
The new special issue of Oral History Forum d'histoire orale, the journal of the Canadian Oral History Association, "Human Rights and Oral History: Stories of Survival, Healing, Redemption, and Accountability," has just been published. You may view it at http://www.oralhistoryforum.ca/index.php/ohfNarrating our pasts: The social construction of oral history
Tonkin treats a complex and timely set of ideas when she studies the relationships between oracy and literacy, oral narrative performance and written texts, memory and history and society. To discuss these areas of scholarly debate, she employs a multidisciplinary, sometimes contentious variety of studies and assertions.The Lion's Gate
It is easy to see why Steven Pressfield was drawn to the story of the Israeli victory over the combined armies of the Arab countries in the Six-Day War of 1967. Pressfield is best known for GATES OF FIRE, the classic exposition of the Spartan warriors at the gates of Thermopylae, but he is also the author of THE WAR OF ART, in which he develops and shares his theory of Resistance.The Coup
In August 1953, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency orchestrated the swift overthrow of Iran’s democratically elected leader and installed Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi in his place. Over the next twenty-six years, the United States backed the unpopular, authoritarian shah and his secret police; in exchange, it reaped a share of Iran’s oil wealth and became a key player in this volatile region. The blowback was almost inevitable, as this new and revealing history of the coup and its consequences shows. When the 1979 Iranian Revolution deposed the shah and replaced his puppet government with a radical Islamic republic under Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the shift reverberated throughout the Middle East and the world, casting a long, dark shadow over U.S.-Iran relations that extends to the present day.Days of Revolution
Outside of Shiraz in the Fars Province of southwestern Iran lies "Aliabad." Mary Hegland arrived in this then-small agricultural village of several thousand people in the summer of 1978, unaware of the momentous changes that would sweep this town and this country in the months ahead. She became the only American researcher to witness the Islamic Revolution firsthand over her eighteen-month stay. Days of Revolution offers an insider's view of how regular people were drawn into, experienced, and influenced the 1979 Revolution and its aftermath.Bukhara Magazine Features Anjavi Shirazi
The latest issue of Bukhara magazine pertaining to Abolqasem Anjavi Shirazi, Persian literary researcher, has been published. IBNA: According to Iran Daily, the ‘Literary Criticism’ section of the 97th issue of the magazine includes writings by Mohammadreza Shafiei Kadkani, Persian writer, poet and literary critic and Taqi Pournamdarian, Persian literary researcher, ISNA reported. Also two written pieces from Mostafa Mohaqeq Damad and Houshang Dowlatabadi were included in the ‘Islamic Philosophy’ and ‘Text Research’ sections of the magazine respectively.Review: Soviet Families' Inner Lives
How did Stalin’s terror shape “the inner world of ordinary Soviet citizens†(xxix)? To answer this question, the British historian Orlando Figes organized a team of researchers who interviewed Russians about life since the Revolution. They also collected their personal documents and created several archives and a website (http://www.orlandofiges.com), which serve as extensions of Figes’s book. The “moral sphere of the family†(xxx) is the focus of Figes’s 700-page-narrative. In this sweeping exploration, he masterfully handles a massive number of sources as he constructs a complex history of myriad psychic, emotional, intellectual, social, and cultural changes over the course of nearly a century. The thrust of this compelling and often tragic story of families’ everyday lives in Stalinist Russia derives from hundreds of testimonies that have survived through letters, photographs, diaries, memoirs, oral histories, and many other personal or socalled ego-documents. The result is a history of Soviet society’s mentalité in the longue durée....
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Whenever we engage in a task, we naturally seek ways to evaluate our performance — to correct shortcomings and enhance strengths. Such refinement is only possible through the feedback we receive from others. Consider, for instance, a basketball player whose shots are consistently accurate; should he begin shooting blindfolded, his success rate would rapidly decline, as he would be deprived of essential feedback from each attempt.Sir Saeed
The book “Sir Saeed” is a documentary [narrative] of the life of martyr Seyyed Mohammad Saeed Jafari, written by Mohammad Mehdi Hemmati and published by Rahiyar Publications. In March 2024, this book was recognized as one of the selected documentary biographies in the 21st edition of the Sacred Defense Book of the Year Award. The following text is a review on the mentioned book.
