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

Iran is abuzz with rumors that a mummy has been found in southern Tehran – in the exact spot where the mausoleum of former Pahlavi monarch, Reza Shah, was once buried. What happens to the mummy now is anybody’s guess.

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

In the heart of Tehran’s capital is a famous street whose namesake – American missionary Samuel Jordan – is all but forgotten today, despite the key role he played in developing Iran’s educational system in the early 20th century.

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Between Two Deserts: Visual Vignettes from an Iranian-Kuwaiti Bidoon in New Mexico

Me and my older brothers were born stateless in Kuwait. When I hear the “immigrants should go back to where they came from” rhetoric, I think “jokes on you, I have no where to go back to.”

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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
byAjam Media Collective
3 minute read

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A Home for South Asian Art and Beyond in Philadelphia

Iranian Christmas and Hollywood Catholicism during the Iran-Iraq War

Posted on December 25, 2017February 9, 2018
byBeeta Baghoolizadeh
2 minute read

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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
byAjam Media Collective
7 minute read

Demons Licking Your Toes: An Early 20th Century Manuscript from Isfahan

Posted on October 31, 2017December 20, 2017
byAjam Media Collective
2 minute read

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The Iraqi Soundtrack to the War Against ISIS

Posted on October 12, 2017November 29, 2017
byAlex Shams
4 minute read

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The Weaponization of Nostalgia: How Afghan Miniskirts Became the Latest Salvo in the War on Terror

Posted on September 6, 2017November 10, 2017
byAlex Shams
8 minute read

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