How Nowruz is Celebrated Around the World
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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.
Coffeehouse 3.0: Of Spies & Bloggers in Our Midst
This piece was originally published on The Tuqay before it became part of Ajam Media Collective. picture credit: Molapse – http://molapse.wordpress.com/2011/05/20/molapse-is-back-in-analogue-form/ When farangi find out that I’m a professional…
The Word in the Ruins
This piece was originally published on The Tuqay before it became part of Ajam Media Collective. “Poetry is the queen of language, the sovereign of the word.…