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Afghanistan

27 posts
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The Weaponization of Nostalgia: How Afghan Miniskirts Became the Latest Salvo in the War on Terror

  • Posted on September 6, 2017January 22, 2023
  • byAlex Shams
  • 8 minute read
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  • Long Form

Fighting Other People’s Wars: Afghan Soldiers on the Syrian Battlefield

  • Posted on June 14, 2016December 3, 2020
  • byAjam Media Collective
  • 11 minute read
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Divided by a Common Tongue: Exclusionary Politics of Persian-Language Pedagogy

  • Posted on October 5, 2015December 3, 2020
  • byAjam Media Collective
  • 11 minute read
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Between Uncertainty and Paradox: Afghan Refugees in Turkey

  • Posted on August 10, 2015December 3, 2020
  • byKamyar Jarahzadeh
  • 8 minute read
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Ajam Digital Archive: Recentering Personal and Communal Histories

  • Posted on August 4, 2015December 3, 2020
  • byAjam Media Collective
  • 5 minute read
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Ajam Mixtape #9: Persian Poetry in Contemporary Music

  • Posted on January 5, 2015December 3, 2020
  • byKamyar Jarahzadeh
  • 4 minute read
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A Year in Ajam: Revisiting Our Best Articles of 2014

  • Posted on January 1, 2015December 3, 2020
  • byAjam Media Collective
  • 2 minute read
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Curtains of Iron or Curtains of Silk? Soviet Artwork in Conversation with West and South Asia

  • Posted on May 13, 2014December 3, 2020
  • byAsher Kohn
  • 8 minute read
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The King Hasn’t Left The Building: An Oral History of an Afghan Musical Icon, Ahmad Zahir

  • Posted on April 15, 2014June 14, 2022
  • byAjam Media Collective
  • 8 minute read
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Ajam Mixtape #3: Sounds of Nowruz

  • Posted on March 19, 2014December 3, 2020
  • byKamyar Jarahzadeh
  • 4 minute read
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