Earlier this year, an old Persian song went viral after appearing in Bollywood film "Animal." Known as Jamal Kudu, the original lyrics actually reference an Afro-Iranian man fleeing enslavement. How did Jamal Kudu go viral? Read on for the answer: ajammc.com/2024/07/20/jam…

1/ 🌞⏳ Ever wondered what it was like to get paid 800 years ago? The Invisible East team has deciphered a fascinating document from the Bamiyan Papers: Ms.Heb.8333.144. It reveals the ins and outs of ministry staff salaries in medieval Afghanistan! 🏛️✨

Grateful to Professor Afshin Matin-asgari for reviewing the new edition of Fred Halliday's "#Iran: Dictatorship and Development" which I edited and introduced for Jacobin jacobin.com/2024/08/iran-r…

We are looking for submissions for the Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television! Check out the call for papers below ⬇️!

This beautiful 500-kilometre-long line of more than 200 natural springs in the Iraqi Western Desert has a significant role in the history of Mesopotamia and Arabia. Free download our hydrology paper about it; the archaeology and heritage papers are coming mdpi.com/2073-4441/16/1…

New mix and interview from Los Angeles based Environmental Studies! Daniel Diako, founder of the project, sat down with Ajam to talk about the Iranian diaspora influence on the project and share a mix exploring the minimal synth genre. ajammc.com/2024/09/02/env…

Saffron vending machine. Mashhad, Iran

"Mongol conquerors enabled and promoted the transmission of knowledge, technologies, religions, ideas, and much more across the geographical, cultural, and linguistic boundaries of pre-modern Eurasia." ajammc.com/2024/01/15/pro…

"The mid-to-late 70s saw an explosion in cassette recording becoming more accessible to Iranian consumers. As Diako tells it, if radio and television were his father’s passport to the rest of the world, tapes were the souvenirs of his journeys." ajammc.com/2024/09/02/env…

Sharing narratives about food and belonging for a writing workshop, Afghans living in Delhi preserve and construct ideas of home – both the remembered home lost to war in Afghanistan, and the home of refuge they are building in India taran khan: himalmag.com/culture/afghan…

"Crossing" follows a Georgian teacher named Lia as she wanders across Istanbul, a "city where people go to disappear," desperate to find the trans niece she failed to accept years before. Lovingly told and beautifully shot, the film is a masterpiece: mubi.com/en/notebook/po…

#NewRelease Muslim Sicily Encounters and Legacy ed. Nuha Alshaar. Edinburgh Univ Pr 2024 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-muslim-si… iis.academia.edu/NuhaAlshaar

If you're interested in enslavement and its afterlives in the Indian Ocean - and in Iranian history in general - I highly recommend this book: The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran ajammc.com/2024/09/08/aja…