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Iran’s Beach Town Boom

September 9, 2016 by Alex Shams

Originally published by Roads and Kingdoms on September 9, 2016. CHALUS, Iran- The jungles of Iran’s northern Caspian Sea coasts have drawn generation after generation of Iranians looking for a getaway

Iran Reporting USA

The Tourist’s Guide to Tehrangeles: Exploring the Capital of the Iranian Diaspora

August 10, 2016 by Alex Shams

Originally published by Ajam Media Collective on August 10, 2016. Los Angeles is the undisputed capital of the global Iranian diaspora. Home to a community of at least 700,000 Iranians

Iran Opinion

إيران “فارسية” ؟: تحديات الأسطورة الآرية والتعصب العرقي الفارسي

June 30, 2015 by Alex Shams

Originally published by Ajam Media Collective on June 30, 2015. To read the original article in English, please click here. نشرت هذه المقالة لأول مرة باللغة الإنجليزية، تجدونها هنا. الكاتب هو اليكس شمس وهو

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Urban Space and the Production of Gender in Modern Iran

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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The Politics of Boycotting Israel while Fighting Sanctions on Iran

October 3, 2014 by Alex Shams

Originally published by Jadaliyya on October 3, 2014. By: Alex Shams and Ali Abdi As the bombs rained down on Gaza this summer, we were reminded yet again of the

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Next Year in Tehran

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

Iran Opinion

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

February 10, 2014 by Alex Shams

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

Iran Opinion

15 Ways Sanctions Hurt Ordinary Iranians

October 3, 2013 by Alex Shams

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

January 24, 2013 by Alex Shams

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

Iran Opinion

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

August 22, 2012 by Alex Shams

Originally published by Ajam Media Collective on August 22, 2012. I awoke yesterday morning to a barrage of excited, fearful, and shocked emails and messages demanding to understand why Iran had

Iran’s Beach Town Boom

The Tourist’s Guide to Tehrangeles: Exploring the Capital of the Iranian Diaspora

إيران “فارسية” ؟: تحديات الأسطورة الآرية والتعصب العرقي الفارسي

Urban Space and the Production of Gender in Modern Iran

The Politics of Boycotting Israel while Fighting Sanctions on Iran

Next Year in Tehran

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

15 Ways Sanctions Hurt Ordinary Iranians

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

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

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