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Ajam Podcast #47: Towards An Environmental History of Modern Iran
In this episode, Belle interviews James Gustafson, Associate Professor of History at Indiana State University, about his new book, The Lion and the Sun:...
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Ajam Podcast #46: Sufi Communities in Afghanistan
In this episode, Belle interviews Dr. Annika Schmeding, Senior Researcher at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and a Lecturer at...
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Ajam Podcast #45: Toward a Relational Understanding of the Persian Gulf
In this episode, Belle interviews Arang Keshavarzian, Associate Professor in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University, about his recent book, Making...
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Ajam Podcast #44: Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Modern Iran
In this episode, Belle interviews Niloofar Haeri, Anthropology Professor at Johns Hopkins University, about her recent book, Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women,...
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Ajam Podcast #43: Histories of Blackness, Enslavement, and Erasure in Iran
In this episode, Belle interviews Dr. Beeta Baghoolizadeh, Associate Research Scholar at Princeton University, about her recent book, The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure...
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Ajam Podcast #42: The 2009 Green Movement and Legacies of Protest in Modern Iran
In this episode, Belle interviews Dr. Pouya Alimagham, a Lecturer at MIT, and a Faculty Affiliate at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Middle East Initiative,...