Almaty Youth on the Future of the Kazakh Alphabet
Over breakfast in my apartment in Almaty, some friends and I were discussing the news. After covering everything from state visits to trade deals, I cautiously brought up the new…
Morgan Liu: On “Uzbekness” and Social Justice
Morgan Y. Liu is a cultural anthropologist studying Muslims in the former Soviet Union, Islamic ideas of social justice, and the impact of oil extraction on Central Asian societies. He…
Kazakhstan’s New Latin Alphabet Project Spurs Discussions Online
Debates over the new Kazakh Latin alphabet have united Kazakh- and Russian-speaking communities, both of which have taken to the web to criticize what they consider an inappropriate alphabet. In…