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Tajikistan
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Divided by a Common Tongue: Exclusionary Politics of Persian-Language Pedagogy
The Iranian national canon, whatever it means to different people, is primarily studied as a continuation of the “Persian literary canon” while Afghan and Tajik literatures are treated as a divergence, and consequently lose the Persian qualifier. Persian literary production outside of Iran is essentially treated as an exotic object in an uncharted terrain.
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.…
The Pamir Has a History
This piece was originally published on The Tuqay before it became part of Ajam Media Collective. A printable version (.pdf) of this article may be found here. Editor’s note: Mr.…
Central Asian Pop Music and the Eternal Question: "You’re not going to get married?!”
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…