FeaturedLong FormHidden in Plain Sight: Field Notes from Central Asia’s Luli CommunitiesPosted on December 9, 2025December 17, 2025byAjam Media Collective8 minute read Share
FeaturedPhoto EssayNowruz Celebrations in Vintage Iranian, Iraqi, and Soviet Postage StampsPosted on March 19, 2025March 19, 2025byBen Rejali4 minute read Share
FeaturedPodcastAjam Podcast #39: Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern InternationalismPosted on March 14, 2024April 18, 2024byBelle Cheves3 minute read Share
FeaturedLong FormLatin Lies: The Lost History of Arabic Script Experimentation in Turkic LanguagesPosted on February 11, 2024February 13, 2024byAjam Media Collective10 minute read Share
Long FormWhen did Afghan Cinema Begin? A History of Kabul’s Filmic PastsPosted on July 12, 2020August 16, 2021byAjam Media Collective9 minute read Share
FeaturedLong FormIbn Sina as COVID Meme: The Internet Afterlife of a 1950s Soviet FilmPosted on April 16, 2020March 5, 2024byAjam Media Collective8 minute read Share
Long FormA Jamatkhana at the Roof of the World: Integrating Tajikistan’s Ismailis into a Global NetworkPosted on May 15, 2019March 9, 2020byAjam Media Collective8 minute read Share
PodcastAjam Podcast #12: The Rise & Fall of KhoqandPosted on April 7, 2019August 2, 2021byRustin Zarkar2 minute read Share
PodcastAjam Podcast #4: Gender and Tajik Labor Migration to RussiaPosted on October 24, 2018August 2, 2021byRustin Zarkar1 minute read Share
FeaturedLong FormDressing the Nation: Tajikistan’s Hijab Ban and the Politics of Fashion in Post-Soviet Central AsiaPosted on September 30, 2018December 1, 2018byAjam Media Collective6 minute read Share