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

Amba: The Iraqi Mango Pickle from India That Tops Palestinian Shawarma

Posted on October 22, 2018December 12, 2018
byAlex Shams
8 minute read

Long Form

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
byAjam Media Collective
10 minute read

Dressing the Nation: Tajikistan’s Hijab Ban and the Politics of Fashion in Post-Soviet Central Asia

Posted on September 30, 2018December 1, 2018
byAjam Media Collective
6 minute read

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Neighborhood Rhythms: Ajam Media Collective’s ‘Məhəllə’ Exhibition in Baku

Posted on August 13, 2018October 26, 2018
byAjam Media Collective
5 minute read

Terrorientalist Landscapes: Arabian Fantasies in the California Desert

Long Form

Remembering to Forget: the Myth of the “Indian Style” of Persian Poetry

Reza Shah’s Mummy, Back from the Dead, Haunts Iranian Politics

How Nowruz is Celebrated Around the World

Posted on March 21, 2018March 22, 2018
byAlex Shams
12 minute read

Samuel Jordan, the American missionary whose name graces Tehran’s most glamorous street

Posted on March 9, 2018July 11, 2018
byAlex Shams
5 minute read

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