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Patriarchy & Islamism between Tehran and Cairo

  • Posted on December 19, 2011December 3, 2020
  • byAlex Shams
  • 3 minute read
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The Little Black Fish – Realism, Oppression, Revolution in Children’s Literature

  • Posted on December 14, 2011December 3, 2020
  • byRustin Zarkar
  • 4 minute read
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Afghanistan: Touch Down in Flight + Dancing American Soldiers

  • Posted on December 10, 2011January 17, 2017
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  • byAlex Shams
Some years ago a cousin of mine went to Afghanistan for work. His company (a shoe manufacturer) was expanding its operations into a new mall being set up in Kabul…
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Lifting the Pardeh on Revolutionary Poster Art

  • Posted on December 7, 2011December 3, 2020
  • byRustin Zarkar
  • 4 minute read
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The Treacherous Territory of Ta’arof

  • Posted on December 6, 2011January 16, 2017
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  • byAjam Media Collective
As a student (and sometimes teacher) of foreign languages, I can attest to the difficulties that learners face in pursuit of that most elusive of second (third, fourth, fifth) language…
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Memory and Public Space in Tehran

  • Posted on December 5, 2011January 16, 2017
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  • byAlex Shams
Tehran is a city infused with politics. Every other street is named after a martyr of the Iran-Iraq war, and the most recent street signs include the word “martyr” in…
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An Evening with Mohsen Namjoo at MIT

  • Posted on December 4, 2011January 17, 2017
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On Saturday, November 19, Iranian musician Mohsen Namjoo (dubbed “the Bob Dylan of Iran” by the New York Times) played to a packed house at MIT’s Kresge Auditorium. Known for…
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Chicago’s Siskel Film Center holds 22nd Annual Festival of Films from Iran

  • Posted on December 3, 2011January 17, 2017
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October in Chicago was a good time for fans of Iranian cinema. The Siskel Film Center hosted the 22nd Annual Festival of Films from Iran, a month-long event dedicated to…
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Arash, Melody, & Transnational Youth Identity

  • Posted on December 2, 2011January 17, 2017
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  • byAlex Shams
Transnational Iranian youth identity today has rather tenuous bonds, a fact lamented by elders who point to language, religion, or various other arbitrary markers of communitarian affiliation to re-affirm their…
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The Met's Islamic Collection is back

  • Posted on December 1, 2011January 16, 2017
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  • byRustin Zarkar
After 8 years of waiting, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City finally opened its newly renovated Islamic Art Galleries on November 1, 2011. With a clunky and…
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