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

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by Ajam Media Collective

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Seta Hagopian, the Fairuz of Iraq

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Come Here, Let’s Drink!: Kef Music from Ottoman Istanbul’s Multicultural Nightclubs

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The Joys of Akitu, the Assyrian New Year

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The First “Iranian-Armenian” in America

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New Beginnings in the Face of Demolition: Baku’s Sovetski Celebrates a Final Novruz

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An Ash-e Reshteh recipe just in time for Nowruz

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Banned Literature: Away from Damascus

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Long Form

Scholarship in the Service of Empire: The Legacy of Ann K.S. Lambton in 20th Century Iran

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#Banned Literature: The Beauty School

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Hate Knows No Mistaken Identities: He Came to Kill an Iranian and Settled for an Indian

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Podcast

Adam Becker on Assyrians, Evangelicals, and Borderland Nationalism

3 minute read

film

A short film: “Moving Through Iran”

February 22, 2017
by Ajam Media Collective
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The following is a short clip, filmed by Ali Karjoo-Ravary and edited by Navjot Kanda. Filmed in 2016 in Tehran, Isfahan, Kerman, Mashhad, and Qazvin, “Moving through Iran” captures movement…

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"The single woman who lives alone with her "pet" cheetahs admits that it has been challenging to meet a man who... https://t.co/l0mYdoaVkZ

"Whether you’re in Turkey, California, Washington or somewhere entirely different, ayran — like doogh, lassi,... https://t.co/88fCqFOl7r

"Since 2016, I’ve been working on the "168:01" project- an endeavor supported by the global community to help the... https://t.co/4mY4a7p3BH

"In 1987, when I was eight, my mother, brother, and I escaped our home. My father was rooted to his childhood... https://t.co/gyEbMoBgnJ

"Turning the “Muslim” (a complex social being) into a homo-Islamicus (a mere bearer of identity) is an Islamist... https://t.co/cSKnh2ixaM

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