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Sofreh aqd : à la découverte du mariage iranien

Posted on July 3, 2022 by Alex Shams

Originally published on Middle East Eye on July 3, 2022. Un grand miroir scintille dans la lumière des candélabres. Les visages du couple se reflètent dans leur lueur. Devant eux,

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Sofreh aqd: An inside look at Iranian weddings

Posted on April 7, 2022 by Alex Shams

Originally published on Middle East Eye on April 7, 2022. Although Iranian weddings vary from family to family, there are some key traditions which feature in almost all weddings (Illustration/MEE)

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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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