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

  • Posted on May 30, 2018May 31, 2018
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Reza Shah’s Mummy, Back from the Dead, Haunts Iranian Politics

  • Posted on April 29, 2018April 30, 2018
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How Nowruz is Celebrated Around the World

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

  • Posted on March 9, 2018March 14, 2018
  • byAlex Shams
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Between Two Deserts: Visual Vignettes from an Iranian-Kuwaiti Bidoon in New Mexico

  • Posted on March 1, 2018March 1, 2018
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Documenting Diaspora Letters: A Call for Stories

  • Posted on February 21, 2018May 30, 2018
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Two Nations Find a Poet: Fitting Ferdowsi into Iran and Afghanistan’s Literary Canons

  • Posted on February 11, 2018March 21, 2018
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No Heaven for Gunga Din, the story of a futuristic Iranian novel from 1965

  • Posted on February 9, 2018March 13, 2018
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The Politics of Persian Language Education in Colonial India

  • Posted on January 31, 2018March 13, 2018
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A Home for South Asian Art and Beyond in Philadelphia

  • Posted on January 22, 2018March 1, 2018
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Parsig and Pahlavi: Why some Persians are trying to revive a medieval language

  • Posted on January 8, 2018February 21, 2018
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A Year in Ajam: Revisiting Our Best Articles from 2017

  • Posted on December 29, 2017February 12, 2018
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Iranian Christmas and Hollywood Catholicism during the Iran-Iraq War

  • Posted on December 25, 2017February 9, 2018
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New Arts and New Audiences: Harvard’s “Technologies of the Image: Art in 19th-Century Iran”

  • Posted on December 20, 2017February 9, 2018
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Blake Atwood on the Secret Life of Video Cassettes in Iran

  • Posted on November 29, 2017February 9, 2018
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Reza Shah’s Mummy, Back from the Dead, Haunts Iranian Politics

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