Documenting Diaspora Letters: A Call for Stories
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From Russia With Light: The Inspirations & Imaginations of Nuri Bilge Ceylan
“We create our own prisons.” Prashanth Kamalakanthan describes the works of Nuri Bilge Ceylan using his words, his images, and his work’s inspirations.
Curtains of Iron or Curtains of Silk? Soviet Artwork in Conversation with West and South Asia
The post-Soviet art of Central Asia and the Caucasus comes out of a Soviet-era conversation of artistic styles that looks not just to Moscow but also to Mecca. An understanding of the high and low registers of this Soviet cultural heritage allows the humor and self-confidence of the work to be appreciated — aesthetically as well as financially — by audiences.
Shirin Mozaffari’s Tarab: How to Listen to Music, Soundlessly
In an e-mail conversation with Ajam Media Collective, Mozaffari said that Tarab “essentially represents the musically induced state of ecstasy transmitted by a performer to the audience through the syntax of music.”