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A guest post by Kamyar Jarahzadeh, a student at UC Berkeley focusing on migration and forced migration in Turkey and the Middle East. Read his earlier post on Iranian pop music.…

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How Good Is Arash’s Persian? The Politics of Language & Identity in Diaspora Iranian Pop Music

Posted on September 5, 2012January 17, 2017
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byKamyar Jarahzadeh

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…

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From Tehran to Homs: Musical Solidarity & Revolutionary Culture in a Time of Siege

Posted on February 23, 2012January 17, 2017
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byAlex Shams

The Syrian Revolution is approaching it’s first anniversary and the situation is looking bloodier by the day. In a not entirely unexpected move, Iran recently sent two ships through the…

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Central Asian Pop Music and the Eternal Question: "You’re not going to get married?!”

Posted on January 24, 2012April 17, 2020
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byAlex Shams

Tajikistan may be an integral part of the Persian-speaking community, but very often it seems as if culture and information tend to flow from Iran (or the Iranian diaspora) into…

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Iranian Women Rapping and Kicking Ass

Posted on January 19, 2012January 17, 2017
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byAlex Shams

A few months ago TM Bax released its newest music video, “Tehran Mal-e Mast.” The video itself is a great look at Tehran and explores these guys’ relationship with the…

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The Persian Pop Scene in Tel Aviv

Posted on December 20, 2011January 17, 2017
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byAjam Media Collective

Persian Israeli Singers: Part I of a series on Iranian Jews and Diaspora Many American Zionists who vilify Iran as the incarnation of anti-Semitism may be surprised to learn that…

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An Evening with Mohsen Namjoo at MIT

Posted on December 4, 2011January 17, 2017
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byAjam Media Collective

On Saturday, November 19, Iranian musician Mohsen Namjoo (dubbed “the Bob Dylan of Iran” by the New York Times) played to a packed house at MIT’s Kresge Auditorium. Known for…

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Arash, Melody, & Transnational Youth Identity

Posted on December 2, 2011January 17, 2017
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byAlex Shams

Transnational Iranian youth identity today has rather tenuous bonds, a fact lamented by elders who point to language, religion, or various other arbitrary markers of communitarian affiliation to re-affirm their…

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