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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

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Iran Hits the Beach

September 13, 2016 by Alex Shams

Tourism is booming, and millions of Iranians are re-discovering the seductions of their northern Caspian Sea coast.

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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

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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

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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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Sectarian War or Political Mistake?

August 24, 2014 by Alex Shams

Originally Published in Andisheh-ye Pouya, Tir 1393.

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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

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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

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

Iran Hits the Beach

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

Sectarian War or Political Mistake?

Next Year in Tehran

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

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