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Archival photograph on the back cover of “Pipeline Cinema: The Cultural Infrastructure of Oil Extraction in Iran and Iraq” (UC Press, 2025) by Mona Damluji

How oil companies shaped early cinema in Iran and Iraq

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Spectrum Turns 61

At the Edge of Art

Reinventing Work

The Discourse of Neoclassicism

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Audra McDonald

The Art of Sound

Flights of Fancy

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Diamonds in the Rough
faded photo of pencil on paper

‘Spontaneous Overflow’

The Illustrated Poet
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