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Iranian Christmas and Hollywood Catholicism during the Iran-Iraq War

  • Posted on December 25, 2017February 9, 2018
  • byBeeta Baghoolizadeh
  • 2 minute read
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New Arts and New Audiences: Harvard’s “Technologies of the Image: Art in 19th-Century Iran”

  • Posted on December 20, 2017February 9, 2018
  • byAjam Media Collective
  • 7 minute read
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Blake Atwood on the Secret Life of Video Cassettes in Iran

  • Posted on November 29, 2017February 9, 2018
  • byBeeta Baghoolizadeh
  • 14 minute read
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How a Rapper Won Over Afghanistan’s Hearts

  • Posted on November 20, 2017January 31, 2018
  • byAjam Media Collective
  • 5 minute read
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Facade: A Mehelle Film About Urban Change in Baku

  • Posted on November 14, 2017December 30, 2017
  • byRustin Zarkar
  • 2 minute read
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Shi’i Rituals in Pahlavi Iran: Audio Recordings from the Ajam Archive

  • Posted on November 10, 2017December 26, 2017
  • byAjam Media Collective
  • 6 minute read
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Demons Licking Your Toes: An Early 20th Century Manuscript from Isfahan

  • Posted on October 31, 2017December 20, 2017
  • byAjam Media Collective
  • 2 minute read
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The Iraqi Soundtrack to the War Against ISIS

  • Posted on October 12, 2017November 29, 2017
  • byAlex Shams
  • 4 minute read
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Banned Literature: Diaspora Letters

  • Posted on September 18, 2017November 20, 2017
  • byBeeta Baghoolizadeh
  • 1 minute read
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Who “wrote” Aladdin? The Forgotten Syrian Storyteller

  • Posted on September 14, 2017November 14, 2017
  • byAjam Media Collective
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