Originally published by Ajam Media Collective on December 27, 2011. Tehran is a city defined by a distinctly “Islamic modernity.” Although some have said it is not an “interesting” city
Originally published by Ajam Media Collective on December 5, 2011. Tehran is a city infused with politics. Every other street is named after a martyr of the Iran-Iraq war, and
Originally published in the Harvard Crimson. The latest chapter in the assault on American civil liberties has begun, and this time it is unfolding in a courthouse in downtown Boston.
Originally published by Ajam Media Collective on December 2, 2011. Transnational Iranian youth identity today has rather tenuous bonds, a fact lamented by elders who point to language, religion, or
Originally published in the Harvard Crimson. Another world is possible. This was the message carried by the thousands of protesters who swelled New York’s Times Square a little over a
Originally published in the Harvard Crimson. President Barack Obama’s speech before the United Nations last Friday was nothing short of a nightmare for the many Americans who had been hoping
Originally published on Mashallah News. The first glimpses of Qom are always a let-down. The approach begins about an hour into the journey south on the Tehran-Qom road, when, after
Published on Hibr in May 2011. A large banner bearing a death announcement fluttered in the wind last Sunday beside an apartment in Jdeideh as some thirty people gathered nearby
Originally published in Mashallah News on May 14, 2011. “Think Lebanese, think secular” The Arab and global audience has borne witness in recent months to massive pitched battles in the central
Published on Hibr in March 2011. In Lebanon, a sectarian system built to represent all of this country’s various faiths means that feeling invisible is a rare thing. Chances are