Ajam Media Collective
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Ajam is a platform focused on culture, history, and politics across Ajamistan: West, Central, and South Asia. Check out our latest article on the website:
In recent weeks 600,000 Afghans have been deported from Iran. Mutual aid networks have rapidly emerged to support deportees dropped at the border - revealing the crucial role of grassroots solidarity in Afghan society. The latest article on Ajam: ajammc.com/2025/07/22/afg…
"Tehran over the last 30 years has undergone a remarkable and exciting urban transformation, with city officials, cultural venues, and grassroots organizations helping build a city that defies cliches." ajammc.com/2019/01/14/teh…
"These networks offer an antidote to institutionalized inhumanity, ensuring returnees are met with recognition of their humanness. They are a reminder that compassion persists even amidst systems that strip people of agency and worth." By @AnnikaAneko ajammc.com/2025/07/22/afg…
Afghan #mutualAid networks have rapidly emerged in recent weeks to support deportees dropped at the border, amid a mass deportation drive that has expelled half a million #Afghans from #Iran. I explore the past&present of these grassroots solidarity networks for Ajam Media
"These networks offer an antidote to institutionalized inhumanity, ensuring returnees are met with recognition of their humanness. They are a reminder that compassion persists even amidst systems that strip people of agency and worth." By @AnnikaAneko ajammc.com/2025/07/22/afg…
"What do each of Iran’s flags represent? And why do they provoke such strong emotions? ajammc.com/2025/07/09/bat…
I wrote about Iran's many flags, their history and symbolism, and why they inspire so much passion. A guide to Iranian flags for the confused: "What do each of Iran’s flags represent? And why do they provoke such strong emotions?"
Our latest article is an exploration of Iran's many flags: "Each Iranian flag signifies a specific history, representing the political divides of the 90 million Iranians in Iran and 5 million in diaspora. Why do they provoke such strong emotions?" ajammc.com/2025/07/09/bat…
"Thailand and Iran celebrate 70 years of relations this year. However, their cultural connection dates back centuries, with Persian influence deeply woven into Thai religion, language, food, and architecture, particularly during the Ayutthaya Kingdom." world.thaipbs.or.th/detail/from-pe…
For the scholasticide website, Aya Elsehaimy writes about Yousef Abu Rabee, the 24-year-old agricultural engineer who helped the people of Gaza feed themselves during the first year of the genocide and was murdered by Israel for doing so. voices.uchicago.edu/scholasticide/…
worthwhile complex meditation by Mahmoud Mamdani on the 50th anniversary of his expulsion from Uganda by Idi Amin, and the forces that shaped it
How did Iran's environment shape histories of labour, revolution, and empire? Listen to the latest @AjamMC podcast, featuring James Gustafson discussing his new I.B. Tauris book 'The Lion and the Sun'.👇
Check it out! ajammc.com/2025/04/07/aja…
I interviewed people across Tehran to understand how the "collective trauma" of Israel's war has profoundly reshaped Iran: "Maryam laughed when I asked her about Israeli calls for Iranians to rise up: “How can we protest when we’re running from bombs?”' truthout.org/articles/israe…
"Iranian militants saw support for Palestinians as a way of furthering their own struggle against the Shah. They emphasized these connections in posters intended to provoke popular support and solidarity," ajammc.com/2023/11/22/ira…
"The Iran-Iraq War is the ideal moment for the Islamic Republic, and not the Revolution itself because there were so many contending ideologies and groups in 1978-1979." ajammc.com/2015/09/27/eme…
"Iran’s flag is unique in many ways; most prominently, the Allāhu akbar design at its heart resembles no previously-existing symbol, but was instead created ex nihilo by an artist to accompany the novel idea it would crown: an Islamic Republic." ajammc.com/2019/02/11/ira…
How did Iran go from a country with very little forced confinement to one of the top ten most carceral states in the world in just a century? The latest podcast on @AjamMC explores the history of incarceration in Iran- and global movements of solidarity: ajammc.com/2024/05/01/aja…
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"Tehran’s problems are the same problems faced by cities around the world; by listening and learning from Tehran’s solutions, perhaps we could work to better solve our own." ajammc.com/2019/01/14/teh…
Reza Pahlavi is son of the last shah — and he often echoes Israeli talking points condemning “appeasement” of Iran. It’s earned him admiration from US neocons, but such belligerent talk is a deadly danger to ordinary Iranians. jacobin.com/2025/06/reza-p…