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Narrating Parsi History in Karachi: Untold Stories of Zoroastrianism from the Coast of Sindh

  • Posted on May 23, 2025May 27, 2025
  • byAjam Media Collective
  • 11 minute read
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Pretty in Pastel: A Century of Petunias in Afghanistan

  • Posted on April 18, 2025April 20, 2025
  • byAjam Media Collective
  • 7 minute read
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Nowruz Celebrations in Vintage Iranian, Iraqi, and Soviet Postage Stamps

  • Posted on March 19, 2025March 19, 2025
  • byBen Rejali
  • 4 minute read
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‘Unity of the Revolutionary Rifles’: 1970s Iranian Leftist Posters in Solidarity with Palestine

  • Posted on November 22, 2023December 14, 2023
  • byAlex Shams
  • 4 minute read
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How Anonymous Artists Built a Visual Language of Resistance During Iran’s Woman Life Freedom Uprising

  • Posted on September 19, 2023September 20, 2023
  • byAjam Media Collective
  • 11 minute read
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Unmasking Petro-Utopias in Iran: Searching for Acts of Refusal and Solidarity in the British Petroleum Archives

  • Posted on August 4, 2023August 14, 2023
  • byAjam Media Collective
  • 11 minute read
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How Ankara Became Turkish: Excavating the Legacies of Cosmopolitanism Buried in Turkey’s Capital

  • Posted on January 24, 2022January 25, 2022
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  • 11 minute read
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The Arts of Protection and Healing in Islam:
Talismanic Shirts as Premodern “PPE”

  • Posted on April 30, 2021June 13, 2021
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  • 5 minute read
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The Arts of Protection
and Healing in Islam:
Water Infused with Blessing

  • Posted on April 30, 2021May 10, 2021
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The Arts of Protection and Healing in Islam:
Amulets and the Body

  • Posted on April 30, 2021May 10, 2021
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