Ajam Media Collective - A Space for Persianate Culture, History, and Politics

How Ankara Became Turkish: Excavating the Legacies of Cosmopolitanism Buried in Turkey’s Capital

Posted on January 24, 2022January 25, 2022
byAjam Media Collective
11 minute read

When Mughlani Begum Ruled Punjab: A Female South Asian Leader Between Glory and Infamy

Posted on November 22, 2021November 23, 2021
byAjam Media Collective
10 minute read

Ajam Records

Ajam Mixtape #15: Composing Home in Diaspora

Posted on October 12, 2021October 13, 2021
byAjam Media Collective
7 minute read

Choreographing the Nation: Dance Performance and Shifting Gender Norms in Pahlavi Iran

Posted on September 14, 2021September 15, 2021
byAjam Media Collective
11 minute read

Why we need to stop calling Afghanistan “The Graveyard of Empires”

Posted on August 24, 2021August 25, 2021
byAjam Media Collective
8 minute read

The Story of Rabia Balkhi, Afghanistan’s Most Famous Female Poet

Posted on August 16, 2021August 16, 2021
byAjam Media Collective
14 minute read

Blog

Urdu poetry fuels a wave of language learning on Instagram

How to Quarantine: Lessons from a 19th century Qajar Iranian Prince

Yêrêvan Xeberdide: How a Soviet Armenian Radio Station Preserved Kurdish Culture

Posted on June 13, 2021
byAjam Media Collective
12 minute read

The Arts of Protection and Healing in Islam:
Talismanic Shirts as Premodern “PPE”

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