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December 16, 2025

Mass grave

The relationship between collective memory and collective graves; in conversation with Raha Bahraini and Shadi Sadar/ Simin Ruzgard.

  Simin Rouzgar “Conquering the collective memory is an action that many ideological governments have undertaken in order to impose their desired narrative of history. Milan Kundera, in one of his famous stories called “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” writes: “The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” This renowned […]...

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Created By: Simin Rouzgard
May 22, 2018

Monireh Baradaran: Destruction of mass graves is an international crime/ Siavash Khoramgah

Monireh Baradaran Khorshahi is a writer and researcher who herself has experienced years of imprisonment and torture during both pre- and post-revolution periods of Azar 57. She is the sister of Mehdi Baradaran Khorshahi, a leftist activist who spent more than seven years in prison before the Azar 57 revolution and was executed in 60 […]...

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Created By: Siavash Khoramgah
May 22, 2018