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برنامج العمارة المستدامة – العمارة والانثروبولوجيا – حلقة الأحد 31 مارس 2019 م

Posted on March 31, 2019 by Alex Shams

The following is an interview with Alex Shams about “Architecture and Anthropology” recorded on Omani national radio as part of a program on sustainable architecture, published on March 31, 2019.

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Urban Space and the Production of Gender in Modern Iran

Posted on February 23, 2015 by Alex Shams

Originally published by Ajam Media Collective on Feb. 23, 2015 and again in Women in Islam journal on Sept. 9, 2019.  What does an Islamic urban space look like? This question

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Palestinian Shared Worlds of Meaning, between George and Reuben

Posted on September 29, 2014 by Alex Shams

Originally published by Ajam Media Collective on September 29, 2014. Ajam Media Collective recently worked with THE STATE, a Dubai-based publishing practice, to make a ‘zine. We provided the words and

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Next Year in Tehran

Posted on February 20, 2014 by Alex Shams

Originally published on The New Inquiry on Feb. 20, 2014. An Iranian intellectual’s trip to Israel in the 1960s revealed the strange appeal of secular republicanism to religious ethno-supremacists In March

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Alex Shams is an Iranian-American writer and a PhD student of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.

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Born and raised in an Iranian-American family in Los Angeles, Alex Shams has long been fascinated by the stories that places can tell us. Growing up, he learned Persian and Spanish; in college, he learned Arabic and studied abroad at the American University of Cairo before moving to Beirut after graduation. After receiving his master’s in Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard, he moved to Bethlehem, Palestine, where he was a journalist at Ma’an News Agency, the largest independent Palestinian news organization. He received his PhD. from the University of Chicago in Sociocultural Anthropology. His dissertation, entitled “Constructing Islamic Modernity: Power, Religion, and Masculinity in Post-Revolutionary Iran,” was based on three years of ethnographic research in Iran, Iraq, and Pakistan as well as archival research in the British Library and Ba’ath Party Archives.

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