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Ajam Podcast #10: Between Iran and Zion

  • Posted on February 17, 2019February 18, 2019
  • byRustin Zarkar
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40 Years Later, Iran’s Flag Remains a Unique Symbol of its Revolution

  • Posted on February 11, 2019February 11, 2019
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Ajam Podcast #9: Soundtrack of the Revolution

  • Posted on February 3, 2019
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Pixelated: How Shaheer Zazai Digitalized Afghan Carpets

  • Posted on January 30, 2019January 30, 2019
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Tehran is not just “LA with minarets”: Against cliches of Third World cities on the brink of disaster

  • Posted on January 14, 2019January 29, 2019
  • byAlex Shams
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Women of Persia and Their “Domestic Superstitions”: A 17th Century Manual for the Female Sex

  • Posted on December 11, 2018January 29, 2019
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After Ara Güler: Capturing the Feeling of Loss in Modernizing Istanbul

  • Posted on November 26, 2018January 30, 2019
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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, 2018December 12, 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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Ajam Podcast #10: Between Iran and Zion

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Ajam Podcast #8: Iranian Internationalism and Student Groups in the United States

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  • Posted on January 20, 2019February 17, 2019
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Ajam Podcast #7: The Limits of Whiteness

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  • Posted on December 16, 2018February 3, 2019
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Ajam Podcast #6: Social Welfare in Iran

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  • Posted on November 29, 2018January 20, 2019
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  • ✨new podcast episode!✨⁣ ⁣ In our latest, @zark.r talks with Dr. Lior Sternfeld on his recent book publication, Between Iran and Zion: Jewish Histories of Twentieth Century Iran. Dr. Sternfeld gives an overview of of the history of the Jewish community in Iran, starting with the constitutional movement and ends with a discussion on Iranian Jews in the post-revolutionary period. ⁣ ⁣ (description: picture of a Jewish retirement home in Tehran)
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  • Did you know the symbol in the top left corner was once the national emblem of Iran? Writing on the 40th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution, Kimia Maleki (@kimiam67) revisits the history and debates around the national flag of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Check out our latest article on the Ajam website ✨
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  • 🚨new podcast episode!🚨 In our latest, @zark.r & @lebnehpapi talk with Nahid Siamdoust on her recent book, Soundtrack of the Revolution. Listen in to hear some tunes from 1979 till today 🎶
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  • Did you miss ajam editor @alex_shams ‘s article on Tehran and cliches of Third World Cities on the brink of disaster? Visit the website (link in bio) to check it out! . "The Guardian covered Tehran in its recent article series, “The next 15 mega cities,” an examination of metropolises across Asia and Africa that will soon hit the 15-million population mark. Unfortunately, instead of taking the opportunity to provide in-depth coverage of a widely misunderstood metropolis, the article peddles in tired cliches. The author – Oliver Wainwright, an architect critic whose biography suggests little background in Iran – highlights disfunction, ignoring the hard work done by many on the ground to improve urban life and build a more sustainable, beautiful, and pedestrian-friendly city. Instead of examining the ins-and-outs of daily life or the resilience of residents, the article sensationalizes the role of Islam in public life. It stresses negative features like traffic and pollution while ignoring positives like innovative approaches to public space, a thriving art and culture scene, and community-led projects. . In doing so, the article recycles tropes that reduce metropolises across the Global South to the same stereotypical image: unruly and always on the brink of disaster. In an age where portrayals of the Middle East are so often mired in reductionist, Orientalist cliches, journalists have a responsibility to dig beneath the surface. It’s easy to write about what’s wrong; it’s harder to find the stories of those who succeed in the face of adversity. But those are the stories worth telling.”
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  • We are pleased to introduce the first article of "Pixelated," a series of posts written and curated by Saba Askary. The series explores the practices of ‘digital artists’ stemming from the Ajam region, who use the medium to look back home; critically, nostalgically or surrealistically. . "Toronto-based, Afghan-born artist Shaheer Zazai considers himself a strict traditional painter, an important pillar of his identity and practice over the years. But in the first days of 2013 he found himself sitting in front of his laptop, feeling unproductive. . Contemplating the year ahead, Zazai gave himself the challenge of typing not words, but 2013 dots and spaces into a Microsoft Word document. The result was not all that effective, so he began to assign highlighter tones to the forming document, designating spaces and directions to them. These abstractions were at first intended to aid Zazai with his creative flow, as sketching naturally would. But the more he moved away from developing patterns, the more unintentional patterns emerged in each document. So much so that a few months later Shaheer stopped resisting and enrolled in a digital painting residency in order to produce a life-size Afghan-carpet, on Word." . Visit the website (link in bio) to read the article!
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  • The first podcast episode of 2019 is now up! . In this episode, @zark.r is joined by Manijeh Nasrabadi, Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College. She is the author of the forthcoming book, Neither Washington, Nor Tehran: Iranian Internationalism in the United States (Duke University Press, 2020). . Manijeh speaks about her research on the Iranian Students Association, which was founded in 1952 by the Iranian Embassy and the CIA to support and monitor Iranian students studying at American universities. Over the course of the 1960s, leftist students maneuvered to take control of the leadership positions of the ISA, and gradually transformed the organization into a radical Anti-Shah opposition group. . Within the Cold War context, members of the ISA found themselves entrenched in the anti-war, anti-imperialist, and civil rights movements of the day. Utilizing first-person interviews and archival work, Dr. Nasrabadi not only traces these intersections, but she also highlights how ISA members recall their hopes for the 1979 Iranian Revolution and their disappointments in its aftermath. . Visit our website to tune in!
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