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“Red Sands”: Reportage and Recipes through Central Asia from Hinterland to Heartland. An Interview with the Author

  • January 19, 2021
Caroline Eden, a travel and food writer, concludes her new book, Red Sands: Reportage and Recipes through Central Asia, from Hinterland to Heartland, with the words “You can learn a…
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  • 8 min
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Nomads and Soviet Rule: Central Asia under Lenin and Stalin. An Interview with an Author

  • March 10, 2020
In his book, Nomads and Soviet Rule: Central Asia under Lenin and Stalin (I.B. Tauris, 2018), Alun Thomas examines the experiences of Kazakh and Kyrgyz nomads in the NEP (New…
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  • 10 min
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Translating Central Asian Literature: An Interview with Shelley Fairweather-Vega

  • October 17, 2019
Shelley Fairweather-Vega is a translator from Russian and Uzbek. She collaborates with authors, academics, and activists around the world and has worked on projects as varied as Russian poetry, Uzbek…
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  • 23 min
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The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan with author Sarah Cameron (video and transcript)

  • March 14, 2019
The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan examines one of the most heinous crimes of the Stalinist regime, the Kazakh famine of 1 930–33. More than…
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  • 7 min
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Best Books on Central Asia in 2018

  • December 21, 2018
New publications on Central Asia have appeared in genres ranging from history—The Rise and Fall of Khokand, 1709-1876 by Scott Levy, and Laboratory of Socialist Development by Artemy Kalinovsky—to security…
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    • Culture
    Women’s Perspective and the Central Asian Cinema
    • 30.09.20
    • 15 min
    • Contemporary art
    Central Asian Non-Conformist Art in Norton Dodge Collection
    • 20.10.20
    • 7 min
    • Contemporary art
    Genghis Khan, Kok-Par and Other Stories of the Great Steppe by Said Atabekov
    • 03.11.20
    • 7 min
    • MOZAIKA
    Is There Future for the Ilkhom Theatre?
    • 13.11.20
    • 6 min
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  • 10 min
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Kyrgyzstan from Belonging to Belief: An Interview with Julie McBrien

  • November 28, 2018
Julie McBrien’s book From Belonging to Belief: Modern Secularisms and the Construction of Religion in Kyrgyzstan is a detailed ethnographic study of Islam and secularism in post-Soviet Central Asia. Julie…
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  • 10 min
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Transforming Post-Soviet Tajikistan: An Interview with Hélène Thibault

  • October 25, 2018
Hélène Thibault’s new book on Tajikistan, Transforming Tajikistan: State-Building and Islam in Post-Soviet Central Asia, takes readers on a journey through the transformation of Tajikistan’s state structures and national ideology since the…
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  • 10 min
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Victoria Clement on Learning to Become Turkmen

  • August 22, 2018
Author Victoria Clement Victoria Clement is Eurasia Regional Analyst with Professional Solutions at the Center for Advanced Operational Culture Learning, Marine Corps University in Quantico, VA. Her research focuses on…
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  • 11 min
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Bazaars: Power and Trade in Central Asia

  • July 18, 2018
Bazaars are hubs of entrepreneurial power in Central Asia, and that power is expressed both formally and informally. By immersing herself in the bazaars of Kyrgyzstan, Regine  Spector learned that…
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Joanna Lillis on the Secret World of Kazakhstan

  • July 5, 2018
Joanna Lillis is a well-known journalist who has been one of the main reporters on Central Asia over the past 13 years. Her book Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World…
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    • Culture
    Women’s Perspective and the Central Asian Cinema
    • 30.09.20
    • 15 min
    • Contemporary art
    Central Asian Non-Conformist Art in Norton Dodge Collection
    • 20.10.20
    • 7 min
    • Contemporary art
    Genghis Khan, Kok-Par and Other Stories of the Great Steppe by Said Atabekov
    • 03.11.20
    • 7 min
    • MOZAIKA
    Is There Future for the Ilkhom Theatre?
    • 13.11.20
    • 6 min
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  • 9 min
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Central Asia in the Era of Sovereignty The Return of Tamerlane? Book launch

  • June 20, 2018
On June 7, 2018, Central Asia Program hosted the book launch for Central Asia in the Era of Sovereignty: The Return of Tamerlane? The event featured some of the book’s…
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  • 13 min
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Hamid Ismailov On “The Devils’ Dance” and Other Works

  • April 18, 2018
“A beguiling tale of khans, commissars, spies and poet-queens…[who] feature in a rare English translation of modern Uzbek fiction.” This is how The Economist described The Devils’ Dance, the most…
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“Have the Mountains Fallen?” The Story of Two Journeys of Loss and Redemption in the Cold War

  • April 4, 2018
In the early 1990s, while working as a journalist in Moscow, Jeff Lilley witnessed the dissolution of the Soviet Union. In 2004, he moved to Kyrgyz Republic. After spending around…
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    Traveling in Central Asia. Helpful Tips from Christian Bleuer
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