Ajam Media Collective
  • About
  • Why “Ajam?”
  • Contact
  • Submissions
  • Subject
    • History
    • Music
    • Visual Culture
    • Urbanism
    • Literature
    • Gender
    • Transnationalism
  • Region
    • Iran
    • Anatolia
      • Turkey
      • Kurdistan
    • Caucasus
      • Armenia
      • Azerbaijan
      • Georgia
    • Central Asia
      • Kazakhstan
      • Uzbekistan
      • Tajikistan
    • South Asia
      • Afghanistan
      • Pakistan
      • India
    • Russia
  • Long Form
  • Photo Essay
  • Blog
  • Podcast
  • Mehelle
  • Music
  • Archive
  • About
  • Why “Ajam?”
  • Contact
  • Submissions
Subscribe
Ajam Media Collective
Ajam Media Collective
  • Subject
    • History
    • Music
    • Visual Culture
    • Urbanism
    • Literature
    • Gender
    • Transnationalism
  • Region
    • Iran
    • Anatolia
      • Turkey
      • Kurdistan
    • Caucasus
      • Armenia
      • Azerbaijan
      • Georgia
    • Central Asia
      • Kazakhstan
      • Uzbekistan
      • Tajikistan
    • South Asia
      • Afghanistan
      • Pakistan
      • India
    • Russia
  • Long Form
  • Photo Essay
  • Blog
  • Podcast
  • Mehelle
  • Music
  • Archive

Blog

80 posts

Blog

Blog

  • Blog
  • media

Pixelated: How Shaheer Zazai Digitalized Afghan Carpets

  • Posted on January 30, 2019July 7, 2020
  • byAjam Media Collective
  • 5 minute read
Share
  • Blog
  • Featured

Terrorientalist Landscapes: Arabian Fantasies in the California Desert

  • Posted on July 11, 2018October 24, 2018
  • byAjam Media Collective
  • 6 minute read
Share
  • Blog
  • Featured

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

  • Posted on April 29, 2018August 13, 2018
  • byAjam Media Collective
  • 8 minute read
Share
  • Blog
  • Featured

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

  • Posted on March 9, 2018January 22, 2023
  • byAlex Shams
  • 5 minute read
Share
  • Blog

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

  • Posted on March 1, 2018March 18, 2019
  • byAjam Media Collective
  • 3 minute read
Share
  • Blog

No Heaven for Gunga Din, the story of a futuristic Iranian novel from 1965

  • Posted on February 9, 2018December 3, 2020
  • byAjam Media Collective
  • 3 minute read
Share
  • Blog

A Home for South Asian Art and Beyond in Philadelphia

  • Posted on January 22, 2018December 3, 2020
  • byBeeta Baghoolizadeh
  • 5 minute read
Share
  • Blog
  • Featured
  • film

Iranian Christmas and Hollywood Catholicism during the Iran-Iraq War

  • Posted on December 25, 2017December 14, 2020
  • byBeeta Baghoolizadeh
  • 2 minute read
Share
  • Blog

New Arts and New Audiences: Harvard’s “Technologies of the Image: Art in 19th-Century Iran”

  • Posted on December 20, 2017December 3, 2020
  • byAjam Media Collective
  • 7 minute read
Share
  • Blog
  • Photo Essay

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

  • Posted on October 31, 2017August 7, 2023
  • byAli Karjoo-Ravary
  • 2 minute read
Share

Posts pagination

Previous 1 2 3 4 … 8 Next

Patreon

Become a member!

From the Podcast

Ajam Podcast #47: Towards An Environmental History of Modern Iran

  • byBelle Cheves
  • Posted on April 7, 2025April 7, 2025
View Post

Ajam Podcast #46: Sufi Communities in Afghanistan

  • byBelle Cheves
  • Posted on March 3, 2025March 3, 2025
View Post

Ajam Podcast #45: Toward a Relational Understanding of the Persian Gulf

  • byBelle Cheves
  • Posted on November 17, 2024November 17, 2024
View Post

Ajam Podcast #44: Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Modern Iran

  • byBelle Cheves
  • Posted on October 6, 2024October 6, 2024
View Post

Ajam Podcast #43: Histories of Blackness, Enslavement, and Erasure in Iran

  • byBelle Cheves
  • Posted on September 8, 2024September 8, 2024
View Post

Most popular articles

Ajam is an independently-run online platform made possible through the support of our community. If you like what you are reading, please contribute what you can!

Subscribe

Signup for updates

Ajam Media Collective
  • About
  • Why “Ajam?”
  • Contact
  • Region
  • Subject
A Space for Persianate Culture, History, and Politics

All words are © Ajam Media Collective, and all photographs are as well unless otherwise noted.
We use a Creative Commons 4.0 license and we ask that all of our work be properly cited with a link and attribution.

Input your search keywords and press Enter.