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Embracing ‘Planned Chaos’: The Geopoetics of Iranian-American Trauma in The...
Warning: The following article contains major plot spoilers. “Planned chaos” is how filmmaker Maryam Keshavarz described The Persian Version (2023) to me, her second feature after the lesbian romance...
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Latin Lies: The Lost History of Arabic Script Experimentation in Turkic...
The following piece was written by Michael Erdman, the Head of the Middle East and Central Asia Section at the British Library. He received his doctorate from SOAS in 2018 for a dissertation on the...
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Ajam Podcast #38: Iran’s Alternative Art Scene
To download the episode, subscribe to us in the iTunes store, Spotify Podcasts, and Google Play. Welcome to a new season of the Ajam Media Collective podcast! In this episode, Belle interviews Dr....
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Ajam is Looking for Your Support
Happy Nowruz! As spring approaches, we here at Ajam Media Collective are asking for your support to keep us going for many new years to come! We’ve started a Patreon to encourage our followers to...
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Ajam Podcast #39: Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism
To download the episode, subscribe to us in the iTunes store, Spotify Podcasts, and Google Play. In this episode, Belle interviews Samuel Hodgkin, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale...
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Happy Nowruz from Ajam: 1402 in Review
Happy Nowruz from all of us here at Ajam Media Collective! This week, the Nowruz holiday harkens the arrival of Spring, and is celebrated across the Middle East, Central Asia, South Asia, and the...
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Ajam Mixtape: Azerbaijani Folk to Transnational Funk
The following is a guest post by Naz Mahmoudzadeh, who currently works on a farm school and in human rights. Naz has a masters from SOAS, University of London, and focused her research on post-Soviet...
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Ajam Podcast #40: Sufism, Knowledge, and Unknowing in Contemporary Iran
To download the episode, subscribe to us in the iTunes store, Spotify Podcasts, and Google Play. In this episode, Belle interviews Seema Golestaneh, Associate Professor in Near Eastern Studies at...
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Ajam Podcast #41: The Incarcerated Modern in Iran & Global Solidarity
To download the episode, subscribe to us in the iTunes store, Spotify Podcasts, and Google Play. In this episode, Belle interviews Golnar Nikpour, Assistant Professor of History at Dartmouth College,...
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Courtyards of Antakya: Mapping Community Memories of a Wounded City
The following is an article by Evlin Hüseyinoğlu, a computer engineer from Antakya. After her home town was destroyed by earthquakes, she joined Nehna to strengthen long-term relief efforts. She...
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Ajam Podcast #42: The 2009 Green Movement and Legacies of Protest in Modern Iran
To download the episode, subscribe to us in the iTunes store, Spotify Podcasts, and Google Play. In this episode, Belle interviews Dr. Pouya Alimagham, a Lecturer at MIT, and a Faculty Affiliate at...
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The Baloch Gulf: Musical Culture Between Makran Coast and the Arabian Peninsula
The following article was written by George Mürer, a researcher and ethnographic filmmaker interested in flows and complexities of musical/poetic expression, regional identity, and popular media across...
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Jamal Kudu from Bandar to Bollywood: How an Iranian Song about Enslavement...
The following piece was written by Siavash Rokni, a postdoctoral researcher in Music Research at McGill University with a PhD in Communication from UQAM in Montreal. Siavash’s work focuses on popular...
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Rugs of Resilience: Unraveling the Symbolism of Armenia’s Weaving Traditions
The following is a guest post by Kyle Khandikian. He is the founder of The Rug Code, an online shop combining traditional rug making techniques with modern design that celebrates the thousands of years...
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Iranians at The Gate of Happiness: The Untold History of Istanbul’s Persian...
The following is a guest post by Soma Negahdarinia, an essayist and researcher. She is currently making a documentary about the history of Iranians in Istanbul. The first part of the documentary is...
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Synths, Samples, and Arezoo: The Story Behind Environmental Studies’ Iranian...
This guest mix is courtesy of Daniel Diako, founder of the experimental music project Environmental Studies based in Los Angeles. Diako provided Ajam Media Collective with a mix of artists he considers...
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Ajam Podcast #43: Histories of Blackness, Enslavement, and Erasure in Iran
To download the episode, subscribe to us in the iTunes store, Spotify Podcasts, and Google Play. In this episode, Belle interviews Dr. Beeta Baghoolizadeh, Associate Research Scholar at Princeton...
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Ajam Podcast #44: Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Modern Iran
To download the episode, subscribe to us in the iTunes store, Spotify Podcasts, and Google Play. In this episode, Belle interviews Niloofar Haeri, Anthropology Professor at Johns Hopkins University,...
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The Peshawari Origins of Iran’s Finest Rice
The following is a guest post by Timur Khan, a Dutch-Pakistani researcher and PhD candidate at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies. His research focuses on the Peshawar valley, its local...
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