TEHRAN -- Tehran’s Art Bureau opened a library that provides books and sources about the Islamic Revolution during a ceremony at on Sunday.

Preserved in the library are over 11,000 volumes and over 500,000 magazines that were published from the time of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution (1905-11) until 1980s, bureau official Saeid Fakhrzadeh mentioned.
There are other sources collected from several countries on the Islamic Revolution, containing more than 800 volumes in English, Germany and Arabic. There are also over 4000 non-Persian articles which are currently being translated, he added.
He announced that Islamic Revolution digital library will be opening in near future.
Memoirs of wars, revolutions and other social events are considered as part of the wealth of nations and we should preserve these invaluable experiences, the bureau official Morteza Sarhangi said.
He went on to say that such libraries give opportunities for scholars to access the proper sources to conduct research on the nature of social changes like revolutions.
The library’s website will be inaugurated on February 3, he said.
Art Bureau Director Hassan Bonyanian made a short speech on the book “Da” which is the memoirs of Seyyed Zahra Hosseini. The book was released recently by Sureh-Mehr publications.
“Da,” which was one of the publisher’s bestsellers, is Hosseini’s recollection of the calamities of Khorramshahr residents during Iran-Iraq war. She was only 17 at the time of the onset of the war.
People are not aware of the difficult life residents of Iranian villages had during wartime. “Da” is a book about those people living in small Iranian towns and this is the subject that makes the book interesting for Iranian readers, he concluded.
Photo: Art Bureau Director Hassan Bonyanian inaugurates an exclusive library dedicated to the Islamic Revolution in Tehran on February 1, 2009. (Mehr)