The Harvard Iranian Oral History Project

The Harvard Iranian Oral History Project was launched by Habib Ladjevardi, MBA ’63, following the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran (Ladjevardi was working as a research associate at Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the time). The project’s goal was to preserve eyewitness accounts of the revolution before they were lost, which was done using cassette tapes and paper, both of which became increasingly fragile over time. But as of this writing, 118 of the 134 interviews conducted as part of the project have been digitized, and so are available to scholars worldwide on the Iranian Oral History Project site, where you can read background on the project and search or browse the interviews.

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