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Beeta Baghoolizadeh

Picturing the Other: Race and Afro-Iranians in Documentary Photography

These types of documentary ventures, both filmic and photographic, identify a racialized community as their subject, visibly recognizable by their visual characteristics. Despite this clear reliance on race, there is rarely much attention given to the issue of race itself. Instead, most tend to emphasize successful assimilation predicated on nationalist sentiments and champion the diversity of these communities. By ignoring race and its relationship to photography, we overlook crucial elements that have structured similar stories in the past.
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Lior Sternfeld on Polish Refugees in Mid-Century Tehran, War and Migration in the Cosmopolitan City

Another installment of the Emerging Scholarship series, where we sat down with Dr. Lior Sternfeld and talked about the Polish refugee community in Iran during and after World War II. Dr. Sternfeld explains Iranian relations with other countries during World War II and what this meant for its new European refugee community.
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  • Update! Experienced people have advised that given the oud's age (it's from 1931!!!), it is def worth restoring. Let @lebnehpapi know if you're in the market for a new beauty like this one 😍
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  • Our editor @lebnehpapi aka Yavaran is going to try to restore this gorgeous oud belonging to an Armenian woman--her father brought it for her from Turkey years ago, but she never learned to play it. Turns out it was made in 1931! 😍 🎼🎻 Do you have any instruments that can tell us stories?
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  • 😍😍😍 in Jodphur, India. Photo from @pennycaravan #ajamistan #blue
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  • Photos from Ashura in 2014 taken by our editor @lebnehpapi on Edgware Road, a street with many businesses from across the Middle East in London. The processions featured various different mosques and communities that came together, creating a multiethnic and multilingual parade. Each group also commemorated the day using their own practices. Someone on the street could hear noha, or poetical lamentations lead by Arabs, Iranians, Afghans, and Pakistanis in their respective languages.
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  • Do you all have your copy of THE LIMITS OF WHITENESS by Prof Neda Maghbouleh yet??? In it, she explores the race and racialization of Iranians in the US. #mustread #muslimban #travelban
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  • A drinking fountain in the old bazaar of Rey, in the south of Tehran. From our editor @alex_shams #ajamistan #tehran
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