Call for Submissions – Banned: Seven Weeks of Literature
Elsewhere Lit and Ajam Media Collective are teaming up to bring you “Banned,” seven weeks of literature featuring stories, essays and poems from Trump’s seven banned countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya,...
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Sabzi Polo ba Mahi: The iconic Nowruz dinner
Ajam Media Collective is pleased to present a four-part series of recipes to help you celebrate Nowruz on March 20th. Nowruz, which marks the beginning of Spring, is celebrated as the start of the New...
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The Studio of Behnaz Karjoo, an Iranian-American Master of the Islamic Art of...
I sat across from Behnaz Karjoo as she outlined the gold flowers of her Hilya with a fine brush at her New York studio. “Hilya,” work in progress. The completed piece will have 22 kt yellow gold,...
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Banned Literature: Diaspora Letters
Ajam Media Collective and Elsewhere Lit are bringing you #Banned Literature, featuring stories, essays and poems from Trump’s seven banned countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and...
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Blake Atwood on the Secret Life of Video Cassettes in Iran
Emerging Scholarship is a series showcasing the research and interests of new voices emerging from academia that focus on the social worlds, histories, and traveling cultures of Central and West Asia....
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Iranian Christmas and Hollywood Catholicism during the Iran-Iraq War
We were flipping through television channels at my parents’ Los Angeles home, when a black-and-white image of a young girl interrogated by a nun came on. Suddenly my mom squealed, “Avayih Bernadette!”...
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A Home for South Asian Art and Beyond in Philadelphia
Perched on 2nd and Arch, major cross streets in the Philadelphia Arts District, stands a gallery with a simple gray sign hanging above its door – Twelve Gates Arts. Named for the baradari (“twelve...
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Documenting Diaspora Letters: A Call for Stories
When I was in Iran last summer, I faced a series of realities that moved me in a fundamental way. First, I realized that the landscape in Iran changes so quickly that the next time I visit, I will...
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جامعهی ایرانیان آفریقائیتبار: ماورای چهرهی سیاه حاجی فیروز، برده داری و...
این مقاله در سال ۲۰۱۲ به زبان انگلیسی به چاپ رسید و در سال ۲۰۱۹ توسط مرودین توماسزاده به زبان فارسی ترجمه شد. For English, please click here. یکی از دوستانم دو روایت از سفر اخیرش به ایران را با من در...
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India’s Parsi Community and the Making of Modern Iran: An Interview with...
Afshin Marashi is Professor and Farzaneh Family Chair in Modern Iranian History at the University of Oklahoma, where from 2011 to 2020 he also served as the founding director of the Farzaneh Family...
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