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Mejgan Massoumi
Stanford University
Occupation
Lecturer
Contact
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Cinema/Film
Central Asian Studies
Current Events
Ethnography
Ethnomusicology
Gender/Women's Studies
Historiography
History Of Architecture
Iranian Studies
Islamic Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Media
Modern
Music
Pop Culture
South Asian Studies
Transnationalism
Urban Studies
World History
Geographic Areas of Interest
Tajikistan
Central Asia
Afghanistan
India
Iran
Islamic World
All Middle East
All Middle East
Specialties
Popular Culture
Music
Contemporary History
Languages
Dari (native)
Hindi (elementary)
Persian (native)
Pashto (elementary)
Urdu (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 2021 | History | Stanford University
MA | 2005 | City and Regional Planning | UC Berkeley
BA | 2003 | Architecture | UC Berkeley
Abstracts
The Sound of Kabul: Ahmad Zahir, Radio Afghanistan and the Politics of Popular Culture, 1960-79 Kabul Cosmopolitan? Radio Broadcasting and Afghan Connectivity to the World, 1960-1979 Radio’s Revolution: Wireless Technology and the Making of Modern Afghanistan, 1960-79