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Between Arab and Ajam: Travels Across the Borderlands of Iranian Khuzestan, Part 1

  • Posted on September 4, 2013December 3, 2020
  • byKamyar Jarahzadeh
  • 8 minute read
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Zoroastrian Pilgrimages and Muslim Saints: Tracing Modern Iranian Shi’ism at the Shrine of Chak Chak

  • Posted on August 26, 2013December 3, 2020
  • byAjam Media Collective
  • 8 minute read
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Marriage Contracts and the Mashhadi Jewish Community: Art as a Second Identity in the Nineteenth Century

  • Posted on August 19, 2013December 3, 2020
  • byBeeta Baghoolizadeh
  • 6 minute read
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Picturing the Iranian Everyday: An Interview with the Photographers Behind “Humans of Tehran”

  • Posted on August 10, 2013January 23, 2023
  • byAlex Shams
  • 11 minute read
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Filming America 1979: Iranian-American Memories of the Year Our Lives Turned Upside Down

  • Posted on August 1, 2013January 23, 2023
  • byAlex Shams
  • 8 minute read
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Baku-born, Diaspora-bred: How Yura Movsisyan went from Refugee to 21st-century Armenian Hero

  • Posted on July 21, 2013December 3, 2020
  • byAsher Kohn
  • 7 minute read
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Internalized Colonial Narratives in Pakistani Cinema: Liberalism, “Good Muslims,” and the War on Terror

  • Posted on July 2, 2013December 3, 2020
  • byHamzah Saif
  • 8 minute read
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Ask Iran: Independent Cartoons and Graphic Novels Highlight A Nation Beyond Stereotypes

  • Posted on June 19, 2013December 3, 2020
  • byAjam Media Collective
  • 8 minute read
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Reconstructing a Persian Past: Contemporary Uses and Misuses of the Cyrus Cylinder in Iranian Nationalist Discourse

  • Posted on June 6, 2013December 3, 2020
  • byBeeta Baghoolizadeh
  • 8 minute read
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A Fistful of Rials: Morality and Iranian Cowboy Masculinities in a Shirazi Western

  • Posted on May 28, 2013December 3, 2020
  • byAsher Kohn
  • 7 minute read
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