Khandaniha
Khandaniha or Chandaniha ( Persian خواندنیها Xandanhiha ; German: worth reading ) was aPersian-language magazine publishedby Aliasqar Amirani , which, like Reader's Digest , published articles from other magazines as well as articles from other magazines, some in abbreviated form. The magazine was published from August 1940 to August 1979.
history
Khandaniha was founded by Aliasqar Amirani in Tehran in August 1940. Aliasqar Amirani wanted to publish a magazine for horse racing, as in Tehran Jalaliyeh Park namely a racecourse but had no newspaper that published the race results immediately. After Aliasqar was refused a license to run his own newspaper because of his youth, he found that publishing articles that had already been published did not require a separate license. So he put together a number of older articles and published them with the race results in a weekly magazine he called Khandaniha.
With the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran in August 1941 and the subsequent occupation by British and Soviet troops, the licensing of newspapers was also reorganized, so that a large number of new daily and weekly newspapers appeared. Readers who were not used to this abundance of information increasingly turned to Khandaniha, in which the most important articles of the week from the most important newspapers were published together with an editorial by Amirani. Aliasqar Amirani had found his format. Khandaniha became an economic success.
By the mid-1970s, Khandaniha had become so popular that it changed from once a week to three times a week. Increasingly, own articles were published in the journal. One of the main editors of the magazine was Zabiholla Mansuri . He wrote on almost all subjects, from "Esoteric Aspects of Islamic Theology" to "Flying Saucers". Mansuri also introduced the Khandaniha serial story format. After completing a story, the articles were summarized and sold as a book. The editions of these books reached several hundred thousand.
In order to better control the press, in the mid-1970s under Prime Minister Amir Abbas Hoveyda every magazine had to include a government-appointed publisher. It was only with the policy of “open political space” that began in 1977 that the content of the magazines was no longer bound by specifications. Khandaniha now also took up politically controversial topics such as corruption, despotism and abuse of power. Amirani directed his criticism primarily against the prime minister and the government. The Shah, whom Amirani had always supported, was not criticized.
After the Islamic Revolution , Amirani changed political camps and went from being a supporter of the monarchy to its greatest critic. It shouldn't do him any good. For forty years he had supported the monarchy in more than five hundred issues of his magazine, so that the sudden change of heart was not believed. In March 1979, Amirani was arrested and charged with participating in the political overthrow of then Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh in 1953 . After four months, Amirani was released without charge. After six months, Amirani was arrested again, sentenced to death on June 22, 1981, and executed.
expenditure
Title page June 24, 1972
Title page July 11, 1972
Title page July 22, 1972
Title page last edition 28th August 1979
literature
- Abbas Milani: Eminent Persians . Vol. 1. Syracuse University Press, New York 2008, pp. 379-384. ISBN 978-0-8156-0907-0