The #MuslimBan Primer: Key Terms and a Timeline of Events
This resource was put together by volunteers from Track The Ban, Vigilant Love, and Ajam Media Collective, as well as independent members of our larger communities. Overview On Friday, January 27,…
A Year in Ajam: Revisiting Our Best Articles from 2016
Ajam rings in 2017 with the past year’s top ten articles.
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.
Concluding Ajam Book Club “Black Star Crescent Moon” with Sohail Daulatzai
Ajam Book Club continues with our last live-streamed discussion with Sohail Daulatzai on his book, BLACK STAR, CRESCENT MOON
RSVP to Ajam’s First Ever Book Club: BLACK STAR, CRESCENT MOON with Sohail Daulatzai
To participate in the discussion forum on the Introduction, Chapters 1 and 2, click here. To listen to the first live-streamed discussion, click here. Some Sunday reading news–Ajam Media Collective is…
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.
Farzin Vejdani on “Making History in Iran: Education, Nationalism, and Print Culture”
The latest in our Emerging Scholarship series, we spoke with Dr. Farzin Vejdani about history and history-making in Iran during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Dr. Vejdani describes the changing nature of Iranian historiography from court histories to national ones, while also elucidating the roles women and foreigners had in Iranian history-making. Dr. Vejdani is an Assistant Professor of History at Ryerson University in Toronto.