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How do you find the perfect words to celebrate a friend on their wedding day?
Mariam Rahmani shares the solution she found in Rumi’s “Divan-e Shams-e Tabrizi.”
Check out the second installation of our Tarjomeh poetry series:
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The Cyrus Cylinder is not what you think it is
"The idea that the Cyrus Cylinder was the first human rights document emerged from the lips of a dictator."
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"The idea that the Cyrus Cylinder was the first human rights document emerged from the lips of a dictator."
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It's been six months since Israel bombed an Iranian synagogue
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I wrote about Bedam Shah Warsi and the ways his poetry continues to live through qawwali, mehfils, devotion and now digital spaces.
Thank you @AjamMC for giving me the space to tell this story
How does a poet’s legacy survive not just in writing, but through the voices that sing their verses?
Rooted in the Sufi shrines of Awadh in northern India, Bedam Shah Warsi’s poetry travels from qawwal mehfils to digital screens around the world:
Read the full article here:
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If anyone wants to write it up, could be a great short article for the Unexpected Persianate series we have on Ajam
We recently had this article about a Swiss canton flag that references Iran as well:
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"Zemestan remains inseparable from the dark and chilling season of Iranian history evoked by its title, marked by political defeat, authoritarian consolidation, and the crushing of leftist and democratic hopes in Iran.
Akhavan wrote it shortly after his year-long imprisonment following the 1953 CIA-led coup that overthrew Mohammad Mossadegh."
When and where does Persian poetry become modern?
How does modernity emerge within a millennium-old poetic tradition?
We explore this question in “Tarjomeh”—a new Ajam series of original translations of Persian poetry into English.
In their translation of Mehdi Akhavan-Sales’ “Chavushi,” Ashkaan Kashani and Behzad Borhan highlight a haunting 1956 poem in which Hafez, Khayyam, Gogol, and ancient Persian myth all converge in the aftermath of political defeat.
Read the full piece:
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"The season finale of the show Tehran premiered in the US on February 27, 2026.
The US-Israel war on Iran began on February 28, 2026."
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Incisive piece of media criticism that shows how Hollywood paved the way for the US/Israel's attacks on Iran.
"Before Iranians were killed, they had to become killable. And shows like Homeland and Tehran did precisely that."
"Mountains turned blood red. Murals defaced.
Performance art as a mechanism of remembrance and defiance.
Tehran’s roofs transformed into a sonic battleground, from which protest chants ring out nightly as battles continue in the streets below."
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"Across the most popular Hollywood productions on Iran, Iranians appear as threats, mobs, fanatics, and monsters.
But over the last five years, the tone has shifted.
The new wave of Israeli-made shows turn Iran into a war zone to be bombed."
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"The phrase “the graveyard of empires” not only negates thousands of years of Afghanistan’s history as a flourishing centre of civilisation, but also shifts the blame for U.S. failures there onto the land and people of Afghanistan themselves."
ajammc.com/2021/08/24/stop-c…
"In popular Hollywood productions, Iranians appear as threats, fanatics, and monsters.
But recently, the tone of dehumanization has shifted.
The new wave of Israeli-produced shows go further, turning Iran into a war zone to be bombed."
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میدونستید «بدون دخترم هرگز» در اسراییل فیلم برداری شده بود و خیلی از کسانی که در فیلم نقش ایرانی رو بازی کردن اسراییلی بودن؟
"An earlier generation of Hollywood films built an image of Iran as fanatical, backward, and savage.
Recent Israeli shows have carried this legacy forward, not only rehearsing the dehumanization of Iranians, but turning Iran into an active war zone."
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