Ajam Mixtape #3: Sounds of Nowruz
The Ajam Family would like to wish you all a very happy Nowruz and spring season. Enjoy this podcast, which collects the sounds of festivities from the different parts of the world that celebrate this joyous day.
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Baku-born, Diaspora-bred: How Yura Movsisyan went from Refugee to 21st-century Armenian Hero
Yura Movsisyan came to the United States as a refugee from violence in his formerly-cosmopolitan, formerly Soviet, hometown of Baku. Now one of the best young soccer players in the world, he has become a national treasure for Armenians and for Americans. As a Hometown Hero for a worldwide diaspora community, Movsisyan has become a unique young man who is the symbol of a new 21st century Armenianness.
“An Apparatus of Mediators” – State Religion Policy in Azerbaijan
This piece was originally published on The Tuqay before it became part of Ajam Media Collective. Throughout Azerbaijan’s two decades of post-Soviet independence, relations between the country’s secular government and…
How Good Is Arash’s Persian? The Politics of Language & Identity in Diaspora Iranian Pop Music
A guest post by Kamyar Jarahzadeh, a student at UC Berkeley focusing on migration and forced migration in Turkey and the Middle East. Like the modern music of most cultures, a…