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Next Year in Tehran

Posted on February 20, 2014 by alexrezashams

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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From Tehran to Newcastle: “I Am Nasrine” and the Politics of Telling Migrant Narratives

Posted on February 10, 2014 by alexrezashams

Originally published on February 10, 2014 by Ajam Media Collective. “I Am Nasrine” is the first feature length-film from Iranian-British Director Tina Gharavi. Newly available on DVD, the BAFTA-nominated film

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15 Ways Sanctions Hurt Ordinary Iranians

Posted on October 3, 2013 by alexrezashams

Originally published by Ajam Media Collective on October 3, 2013. Since the 1979 revolution, Iran has been placed under increasingly harsh rounds of sanctions by the US, the European Union, and the United

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Seeing Through the Haze: the Politics of Reporting Sanctions and Smog in Tehran

Posted on January 24, 2013 by alexrezashams

Originally published by Ajam Media Collective on January 24, 2013. This winter has been a particularly rough one in Tehran. For the third year in a row, air pollution has

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No, Iran Didn’t Just Ban Women From Universities.

Posted on August 22, 2012 by alexrezashams

Originally published by “Ajam Media” I awoke yesterday morning to a barrage of excited, fearful, and shocked emails and messages demanding to understand why Iran had suddenly decided to ban

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Welcome to Qom: City of Samosas and Mullah Factories

Posted on March 8, 2012 by alexrezashams

Originally published by Ajam Media Collective on March 8, 2012. The first glimpses of Qom are always a let-down. The approach begins about an hour into the journey south on

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