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How Anonymous Artists Built a Visual Language of Resistance During Iran’s Woman Life Freedom Uprising

  • Posted on September 19, 2023September 20, 2023
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Between Truth and Myth: The Shirazis Who Built Mosques from East Africa to China

  • Posted on August 26, 2023August 27, 2023
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Unmasking Petro-Utopias in Iran: Searching for Acts of Refusal and Solidarity in the British Petroleum Archives

  • Posted on August 4, 2023August 14, 2023
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Destination Persia: The Development of Iran’s Tourism Strategy in the 1960s

  • Posted on July 14, 2023July 14, 2023
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Recovering Arab Trans History: Masoud El Amaratly, the Folk Music Icon from Iraq’s Marshes

  • Posted on June 26, 2023
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First Time on the Overnight Train from Tehran to Samarqand

  • Posted on May 28, 2023May 31, 2023
  • byAlex Shams
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The Magical Mudbrick University of Kashan

  • Posted on May 28, 2023May 31, 2023
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Back to the Future in Sistan

  • Posted on May 28, 2023May 31, 2023
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Searching Future Archives for a Persianate Home

  • Posted on May 28, 2023May 30, 2023
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7 Extinct Seens

  • Posted on May 28, 2023August 4, 2023
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Persianate Futurism: What will the Persianate world look like in 30 years?

  • Posted on May 28, 2023May 30, 2023
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Echoes of Loss and Celebration: Iranian Home Videos as Beautiful Apparitions

  • Posted on April 8, 2023April 10, 2023
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Sisters in Strength: The Iranian Women Reclaiming Zurkhaneh Sports

  • Posted on March 6, 2023August 4, 2023
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Baraye: Understanding Iran’s Song of Protest and Compassion

  • Posted on February 9, 2023February 20, 2023
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Connecting a Divided World: A Brief History of Iran’s Postal System

  • Posted on June 27, 2022June 27, 2022
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