Ajam Media Collective
  • About
  • Why “Ajam?”
  • Contact
  • Submissions
  • Subject
    • History
    • Music
    • Visual Culture
    • Urbanism
    • Literature
    • Gender
    • Transnationalism
  • Region
    • Iran
    • Anatolia
      • Turkey
      • Kurdistan
    • Caucasus
      • Armenia
      • Azerbaijan
      • Georgia
    • Central Asia
      • Kazakhstan
      • Uzbekistan
      • Tajikistan
    • South Asia
      • Afghanistan
      • Pakistan
      • India
    • Russia
  • Long Form
  • Photo Essay
  • Blog
  • Podcast
  • Mehelle
  • Music
  • Archive
  • About
  • Why “Ajam?”
  • Contact
  • Submissions
Subscribe
Ajam Media Collective
Ajam Media Collective
  • Subject
    • History
    • Music
    • Visual Culture
    • Urbanism
    • Literature
    • Gender
    • Transnationalism
  • Region
    • Iran
    • Anatolia
      • Turkey
      • Kurdistan
    • Caucasus
      • Armenia
      • Azerbaijan
      • Georgia
    • Central Asia
      • Kazakhstan
      • Uzbekistan
      • Tajikistan
    • South Asia
      • Afghanistan
      • Pakistan
      • India
    • Russia
  • Long Form
  • Photo Essay
  • Blog
  • Podcast
  • Mehelle
  • Music
  • Archive

Posts by tag

Photography

20 posts
  • Photo Essay

My Parents Don’t Talk to Me: Photography & Intergenerational Silence in Georgia

  • Posted on March 11, 2019March 12, 2019
  • byRustin Zarkar
  • 9 minute read
Share
  • Photo Essay

After Ara Güler: Capturing the Feeling of Loss in Modernizing Istanbul

  • Posted on November 26, 2018January 30, 2019
  • byAjam Media Collective
  • 8 minute read
Share
  • Blog

New Arts and New Audiences: Harvard’s “Technologies of the Image: Art in 19th-Century Iran”

  • Posted on December 20, 2017December 3, 2020
  • byAjam Media Collective
  • 7 minute read
Share
  • Mehelle
  • Photo Essay

Things Left Behind: Art Left to Burn

  • Posted on July 20, 2016December 3, 2020
  • byAjam Media Collective
  • 1 minute read
Share
  • Photo Essay

(Red)Framing Baku: Photographing Urban Change in Azerbaijan’s Capital

  • Posted on June 23, 2016December 3, 2020
  • byRustin Zarkar
  • 5 minute read
Share
  • Long Form

See You In Tehran: Tips for the Summer Traveler in Iran’s Capital

  • Posted on June 9, 2016December 3, 2020
  • byAjam Media Collective
  • 8 minute read
Share
  • Ajam Archive

Towards An Archive of the Basij: Memories from Iran’s Volunteer Militia

  • Posted on May 31, 2016December 3, 2020
  • byAjam Media Collective
  • 9 minute read
Share
  • Photo Essay

Zoroastrian Nowruz in Tehran: Celebrating the “Big Five”

  • Posted on March 21, 2016December 3, 2020
  • byAjam Media Collective
  • 5 minute read
Share
  • Ajam Archive

Ajam Digital Archive: Recentering Personal and Communal Histories

  • Posted on August 4, 2015December 3, 2020
  • byAjam Media Collective
  • 5 minute read
Share
  • Long Form

Picturing the Other: Race and Afro-Iranians in Documentary Photography

  • Posted on July 20, 2015December 3, 2020
  • byBeeta Baghoolizadeh
  • 9 minute read
Share

Posts navigation

1 2 Next
From the Podcast

Ajam Podcast #37: Sufi Miracle Workers of Malaya

  • byAli Karjoo-Ravary
  • Posted on April 26, 2021August 2, 2021
View Post

Ajam Podcast #36: Being Persian before Modern Iran

  • byAli Karjoo-Ravary
  • Posted on April 12, 2021August 2, 2021
View Post

Ajam Podcast #35: Creating India, Forgetting Hindustan

  • byAli Karjoo-Ravary
  • Posted on March 8, 2021August 2, 2021
View Post

Ajam Podcast #34: Finding Home through Armenian Music with Joseph Bohigian

  • byRustin Zarkar
  • Posted on February 22, 2021August 2, 2021
View Post

Ajam Podcast #33: Muslim Narratives of the Formation of Premodern Gujarat

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

Ajam is an independently-run online platform made possible through the support of our community. If you like what you are reading, please contribute what you can!

Most Popular Articles
  • Why we need to stop calling Afghanistan “The Graveyard of Empires”
    • byAjam Media Collective
    • Posted on August 24, 2021August 25, 2021
  • The Story of Rabia Balkhi, Afghanistan’s Most Famous Female Poet
    • byAjam Media Collective
    • Posted on August 16, 2021August 16, 2021
  • How Ankara Became Turkish: Excavating the Legacies of Cosmopolitanism Buried in Turkey’s Capital
    • byAjam Media Collective
    • Posted on January 24, 2022January 25, 2022
  • How to Quarantine: Lessons from a 19th century Qajar Iranian Prince 
    • byAjam Media Collective
    • Posted on July 5, 2021July 7, 2021
  • Choreographing the Nation: Dance Performance and Shifting Gender Norms in Pahlavi Iran
    • byAjam Media Collective
    • Posted on September 14, 2021September 15, 2021
@ajammc
avatar @AjamMC
"Pul-e-Surkh centre was once the hub of cultural activity in Kabul, with cafes filling the buzzing bylanes and peop… https://t.co/YGRuUpqHdF
about 1 minute ago
  • Reply
  • Retweet
  • Favorite
RT @AlgeriaNumidian: Algerians celebrating the independence of Algeria ❤️🇩🇿 https://t.co/vX0aa345CK
4 hours ago
  • Reply
  • 590 Retweet
  • Favorite
RT @sumacweave: A rug gifted to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union by the Democratic Party of Azerbaijan. https://t.co/jH489uiQNh
5 hours ago
  • Reply
  • 2806 Retweet
  • Favorite
RT @karpassia: ‘Muqam’ (1984) by Uyghur painter Ghazi Ehmet https://t.co/MLce2nhgTo
5 hours ago
  • Reply
  • 7 Retweet
  • Favorite
The original sketch of the Iran Post logo drawn for a national competition by Mostafa Kiani in 1989. "Even when o… https://t.co/V4bivTHJw4
5 hours ago
  • Reply
  • Retweet
  • Favorite
The story of how an Iranian product became a luxury good connoting Western and white high-class status speaks to ho… https://t.co/v7HVFwHRrT
5 hours ago
  • Reply
  • Retweet
  • Favorite
"Since the Trump administration designated Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization in 201… https://t.co/PEKpYkNU4W
5 hours ago
  • Reply
  • Retweet
  • Favorite
"Many musicians left after the revolution and during the war, mostly for Europe and North America, joining a diaspo… https://t.co/GS8uqm6tia
3 days ago
  • Reply
  • Retweet
  • Favorite
Follow
Instagram has returned invalid data.

Subscribe

Signup for updates

Ajam Media Collective
  • About
  • Why “Ajam?”
  • Contact
  • Region
  • Subject
A Space for Persianate Culture, History, and Politics

All words are © Ajam Media Collective, and all photographs are as well unless otherwise noted.
We use a Creative Commons 4.0 license and we ask that all of our work be properly cited with a link and attribution.

Input your search keywords and press Enter.