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Colonialism

10 posts
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Ajam Podcast #35: Creating India, Forgetting Hindustan

  • Posted on March 8, 2021August 2, 2021
  • byAli Karjoo-Ravary
  • 3 minute read
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Racializing Craftsmen: How British martial race theory erased Pathan artisanship

  • Posted on July 26, 2020July 30, 2020
  • byAjam Media Collective
  • 9 minute read
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Dates, Embargoes, and Ancient Artifacts: An Iraqi-American Artist in the California Desert

  • Posted on June 13, 2019August 27, 2019
  • byAjam Media Collective
  • 10 minute read
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Julie Stephens on Religious Sentiment and Political Liberties in Colonial South Asia

  • Posted on September 7, 2016December 3, 2020
  • byAjam Media Collective
  • 3 minute read
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‘Where There is No Architect’: Histories from the Native Town of Bombay

  • Posted on July 27, 2016December 3, 2020
  • byAjam Media Collective
  • 9 minute read
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Persian Rugs and the Aesthetics of Whiteness in Apartheid-Era South Africa

  • Posted on February 2, 2016December 3, 2020
  • byAjam Media Collective
  • 7 minute read
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Weaving History: Ziegler Co. and the Making of Iran’s Carpet Industry

  • Posted on September 14, 2014June 27, 2022
  • byAjam Media Collective
  • 7 minute read
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Auctioning History: Ancient Artefacts, Greco-Persian Labels and Mediterranean Identities Beyond ‘East’ and ‘West’

  • Posted on September 23, 2013December 3, 2020
  • byAjam Media Collective
  • 9 minute read
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Internalized Colonial Narratives in Pakistani Cinema: Liberalism, “Good Muslims,” and the War on Terror

  • Posted on July 2, 2013December 3, 2020
  • byHamzah Saif
  • 8 minute read
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Patriarchy & Islamism between Tehran and Cairo

  • Posted on December 19, 2011October 20, 2022
  • byAlex Shams
  • 2 minute read
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From the Podcast

Ajam Podcast #37: Sufi Miracle Workers of Malaya

  • byAli Karjoo-Ravary
  • Posted on April 26, 2021November 4, 2022
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Ajam Podcast #36: Being Persian before Modern Iran

  • byAli Karjoo-Ravary
  • Posted on April 12, 2021August 2, 2021
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Ajam Podcast #35: Creating India, Forgetting Hindustan

  • byAli Karjoo-Ravary
  • Posted on March 8, 2021August 2, 2021
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Ajam Podcast #34: Finding Home through Armenian Music with Joseph Bohigian

  • byRustin Zarkar
  • Posted on February 22, 2021November 4, 2022
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Ajam Podcast #33: Muslim Narratives of the Formation of Premodern Gujarat

  • byAli Karjoo-Ravary
  • Posted on February 8, 2021August 2, 2021
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