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Pixelated: How Shaheer Zazai Digitalized Afghan Carpets

  • Posted on January 30, 2019July 7, 2020
  • byAjam Media Collective
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Terrorientalist Landscapes: Arabian Fantasies in the California Desert

  • Posted on July 11, 2018October 24, 2018
  • byAjam Media Collective
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Reza Shah’s Mummy, Back from the Dead, Haunts Iranian Politics

  • Posted on April 29, 2018August 13, 2018
  • byAjam Media Collective
  • 8 minute read
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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
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Between Two Deserts: Visual Vignettes from an Iranian-Kuwaiti Bidoon in New Mexico

  • Posted on March 1, 2018March 18, 2019
  • byAjam Media Collective
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No Heaven for Gunga Din, the story of a futuristic Iranian novel from 1965

  • Posted on February 9, 2018December 3, 2020
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A Home for South Asian Art and Beyond in Philadelphia

  • Posted on January 22, 2018December 3, 2020
  • byBeeta Baghoolizadeh
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Iranian Christmas and Hollywood Catholicism during the Iran-Iraq War

  • Posted on December 25, 2017December 14, 2020
  • byBeeta Baghoolizadeh
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New Arts and New Audiences: Harvard’s “Technologies of the Image: Art in 19th-Century Iran”

  • Posted on December 20, 2017December 3, 2020
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Demons Licking Your Toes: An Early 20th Century Manuscript from Isfahan

  • Posted on October 31, 2017August 7, 2023
  • byAli Karjoo-Ravary
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