Negotiated Allegiances: Contemporary Iranian Jewish Identities
… Iranian woman at her niece’s bat mitzvah party in Kings Point, Long Island, in November 2008, she began reminiscing about Iran: “Those were our best years; we left the mahalleh …
… Iranian woman at her niece’s bat mitzvah party in Kings Point, Long Island, in November 2008, she began reminiscing about Iran: “Those were our best years; we left the mahalleh …
… were forced to live in separated neighborhoods ( Mahalleh ) and to pay various poll taxes (… This saying illustrates how some Iranians ascribed to Jews mysterious and mystical abilities…
… were forced to live in separated neighborhoods ( Mahalleh) and to pay various poll taxes ( … This saying illustrates how some Iranians ascribed to Jews mysterious and mystical abilities…
… are generically referred to as mahalleh-ye juhudha by Iranian Muslims and simply mahalleh by the Jews. Though in an of itself the word mahalleh carries no negative implications in the …
… The Persian term used for a segregated or distinct neighborhood is mahalleh, which roughly translates to “quarter,” “district” or “ward.” Shi’a notions of the impurity of non-Muslims …
… I tried simply saying I was Kurdish—thousands of Kurdish Jews lived in Israel—but then I … mahalleh of Tehran was more specifically the Sareh Chal neighborhood, and the mahalleh …
… in Iran, there were two rival neighborhoods (mahalleh, in Persian). After Zand Street was … Jews are seen in a mahalleh. In the background, the words Mahalleh-ye Joodha is written, …
… Gradually that area developed into a large Jewish mahalleh (quarter, district or … Most Mehmoonis consist of an over abundance of delicious Irooni ( our way of saying Iranian) food rich …
Through analysing different case studies in the Middle East, this section uses rooted cosmopolitanism as a theoretical lens to explore exported modernism and architecture between …
… It goes without saying that environmental problems do not recognize national boundaries, … , in shaping villages and city wards (mahalleh) and their strictly observed physical boundaries. …