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Ajam Podcast #6: Social Welfare in Iran

  • Posted on November 29, 2018December 2, 2018
  • byRustin Zarkar
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After Ara Güler: Capturing the Feeling of Loss in Modernizing Istanbul

  • Posted on November 26, 2018November 29, 2018
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Ajam Podcast #5: Urbanism & Informality in Post-Soviet Tbilisi

  • Posted on November 5, 2018December 2, 2018
  • byRustin Zarkar
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Lindsey Stephenson on Mobility, Identity and Sovereignty in the Persian Gulf

  • Posted on November 5, 2018November 7, 2018
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Amba: The Iraqi Mango Pickle from India That Tops Palestinian Shawarma

  • Posted on October 22, 2018October 26, 2018
  • byAlex Shams
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A Turkish Star is Born: The 1970s Remake That Launched the Career of Turkey’s Queen of Pop

  • Posted on October 15, 2018November 26, 2018
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Dressing the Nation: Tajikistan’s Hijab Ban and the Politics of Fashion in Post-Soviet Central Asia

  • Posted on September 30, 2018December 1, 2018
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Neighborhood Rhythms: Ajam Media Collective’s ‘Məhəllə’ Exhibition in Baku

  • Posted on August 13, 2018October 26, 2018
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Terrorientalist Landscapes: Arabian Fantasies in the California Desert

  • Posted on July 11, 2018October 24, 2018
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Cyber Rallies and Google Ads: New Strategies of the Turkish Opposition Against Erdoğan

  • Posted on June 20, 2018October 15, 2018
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Remembering to Forget: the Myth of the “Indian Style” of Persian Poetry

  • Posted on May 30, 2018October 4, 2018
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Reza Shah’s Mummy, Back from the Dead, Haunts Iranian Politics

  • Posted on April 29, 2018August 13, 2018
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How Nowruz is Celebrated Around the World

  • Posted on March 21, 2018March 22, 2018
  • byAlex Shams
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Samuel Jordan, the American missionary whose name graces Tehran’s most glamorous street

  • Posted on March 9, 2018July 11, 2018
  • byAlex Shams
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Between Two Deserts: Visual Vignettes from an Iranian-Kuwaiti Bidoon in New Mexico

  • Posted on March 1, 2018June 20, 2018
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Ajam Podcast #6: Social Welfare in Iran

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Ajam Podcast #4: Gender and Tajik Labor Migration to Russia

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  • Posted on October 24, 2018December 2, 2018
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Ajam Podcast #3: Musical Dialects of the Caucasus

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  • Posted on October 15, 2018November 11, 2018
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Ajam Podcast #2: Ahvaz & Xinjiang

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  • Posted on October 8, 2018October 17, 2018
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Ajam Podcast #1: Welcome to the Ajamily

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  • Posted on October 4, 2018November 25, 2018
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  • Posted on June 28, 2017August 2, 2017
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Adam Becker on Assyrians, Evangelicals, and Borderland Nationalism

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  • Posted on February 22, 2017March 10, 2017
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Timur Hammond on the Landscapes of Islam in 20th-Century Istanbul

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