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Iraq Reporting

The Iraqi Soundtrack to the War Against ISIS

October 12, 2017 by Alex Shams

Originally published by “Ajam Media Collective” The Iraqi military has conquered the last urban stronghold of the Islamic State group in Iraq. Following victories in Ramadi, Fallujah, Mosul, and Tel

Iran Iraq Opinion USA

The Weaponization of Nostalgia: How Afghan Miniskirts Became the Latest Salvo in the War on Terror

September 6, 2017 by Alex Shams

Originally published by “Ajam Media Collective” The debate over Afghan women’s miniskirts have become the latest salvo in the War on Terror. Last month, Donald Trump announced that the US

Iraq Reporting

Add A Little Lemon: The Food Blog Bringing Iraqi Cuisine Straight To Your Table

September 1, 2017 by Alex Shams

Originally published by Ajam Media Collective on September 1, 2017. Iraqi cuisine is tremendously complex and varied. It reflects a culinary heritage that draws upon the influences of neighbors both

Iran Reporting USA

Sedentary Fragmentation: Toward a Genealogy of Chicago’s Iranian Art Scene

August 22, 2017 by Alex Shams

Originally published by Ajam Media Collective. In 1951, a young Iranian man named Hannibal Alkhas moved from Tehran to Chicago, where he spent the next decade studying at the Art

Opinion

Waiting for Action

May 18, 2017 by Alex Shams

Originally published by The Maroon on May 18, 2017. The University of Chicago still refuses to acknowledge Islamophobia on campus. For the second time just this school year,

Iraq Palestine Reporting

The Iraqi soldiers who sacrificed everything to defend Palestine in 1948

May 15, 2017 by Alex Shams

Originally published by Ajam Media Collective on May 15, 2017. The main road north from the West Bank city of Nablus winds between rolling hills covered in olive groves, abandoned

Iraq Reporting

The Joys of Akitu, the Assyrian New Year

April 5, 2017 by Alex Shams

Originally published by Ajam Media Collective on April 5, 2017. Assyrians around the world marked the festival of Akitu this week, a spring holiday that commemorates the beginning of the

Opinion USA

Trump’s ‘honour crimes’ order is a racist distraction

March 11, 2017 by Alex Shams

Originally published by Aljazeera on March 11, 2017. The key to protecting American women is defeating American sexism and racism, not scapegoating migrants or Muslims. Trump’s proposal to track ‘honour

Opinion

On Women’s Day, Thinking Beyond American Flag Hijabs

March 8, 2017 by Alex Shams

Originally published by Ajam Media Collective on March 8, 2017. Among the most iconic images from the Women’s March in January was a poster of a woman wrapped in a hijab covered

Opinion USA

Hate Knows No Mistaken Identities: He Came to Kill an Iranian and Settled for an Indian

February 28, 2017 by Alex Shams

Originally published by Ajam Media Collective on February 28, 2017. Over the weekend, a man opened fire in a Kansas bar and shot three people, killing one. The assailant was

The Iraqi Soundtrack to the War Against ISIS

The Weaponization of Nostalgia: How Afghan Miniskirts Became the Latest Salvo in the War on Terror

Add A Little Lemon: The Food Blog Bringing Iraqi Cuisine Straight To Your Table

Sedentary Fragmentation: Toward a Genealogy of Chicago’s Iranian Art Scene

Waiting for Action

The Iraqi soldiers who sacrificed everything to defend Palestine in 1948

The Joys of Akitu, the Assyrian New Year

Trump’s ‘honour crimes’ order is a racist distraction

On Women’s Day, Thinking Beyond American Flag Hijabs

Hate Knows No Mistaken Identities: He Came to Kill an Iranian and Settled for an Indian

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