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Barzu Abdurazzakov as a Lone Voice of the Tajik Creative Intelligentsia

  • February 15, 2023
Barzu Abdurazzakov (1959) is a famous Tajik playwright and theater director. Made an Honored Artist of the Republic of Tajikistan in 2001, he has since 2009 lost favor with the…
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  • 19 min
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Music and Women in Afghanistan and Central Asia: An Interview with Razia Sultanova

  • November 14, 2022
Music occupies an enormous place in Central Asia, and in particular in Afghanistan. Dr. Razia Sultanova, a musicologist and cultural anthropologist, has studied the music of the Uzbeks and other…
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  • 7 min
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Why We Translate Central Asia While All Eyes Are on Ukraine

  • June 20, 2022
This July, Gaudy Boy will publish an English-language anthology of Kazakhstani women’s writing entitled Amanat. The anthology brings together short stories and essays by 13 women from three generations (ranging…
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  • 6 min
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Documentary Center in Tashkent Documents Untold Stories and Unfurls Symbolic Meanings

  • December 17, 2021
Around the world, “art and artistic activism is a dynamic practice that combines the creative power of art, which moves us emotionally, with the strategic planning of the activities necessary…
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  • 18 min
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Did the Kazakhs Have Their Own Dance Culture and What Are the Origins of Kara-Zhorga – The Nation’s Favorite Dance?

  • September 17, 2021
It is known that dance is a bodily expression of human feelings and emotions. Every nation has its own lexicography and distinguished style of dance. How things were with the…
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The Love and Beauty of Wedding Suzani from the Collection of the Russian State Museum of Oriental Art

  • July 29, 2021
Russian State Museum of Oriental Art (Gosudarstvennyi Muzei Vostoka) has an extensive collection of Central Asian suzani—a type of richly embroidered textile that once served as wedding embroidery to protect…
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  • 8 min
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The Return to Romanticism: Interview with Crimean Tatar folk artist Mamut Churlu

  • March 11, 2021
Mamut Churlu is an artist who worked for years in Uzbekistan and Russia on researching folk art practices as well as creating his own art. As part of the mass…
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  • 6 min
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Tajik Gahvora: Harmful Tradition or Useful Childrearing Device?

  • December 9, 2020
For centuries, Tajik families have used a “gahvora” (cradle) to contain babies. The gahvora is one of the oldest traditions in child care and it is still preserved in the…
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  • 15 min
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Women’s Perspective and the Central Asian Cinema

  • September 30, 2020
The founders of Central Asian countries’ national cinema include Kazakhstan’s Shaken Aimanov, with his masterpiece “The Land of Fathers”, Kyrgyzstan’s Melis Ubukeyev, with his work “White Mountains”, Uzbekistan’s Shukhrat Abbasov,…
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  • 9 min
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Sweat, Blood and Central Asian Dance

  • September 10, 2020
Dance is an integral part of life in Central Asia; it can be seen both in rural settings and on the proscenium stage, from highly developed virtuosic classical styles to…
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    • 08.11.22
    • 17 min
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  • 6 min
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The Art of the Wood Carving in Tajikistan

  • September 2, 2020
Tajikistan has a rich heritage of exquisite wood carvings. Dr. Larisa Dodkhudoeva from the Institute of History, Archeology, and Ethnography named after Donish talks about the origins of this art…
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  • 16 min
  • Culture

Khorezm Lazgi: The Sunniest Dance on Earth

  • August 3, 2020
Lazgi is a must-see of Khorezm. Lazgi is the dance with a feel-good factor, making you feel a joie de vivre or zest for life. There is an opinion that…
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  • 9 min
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Ali Shir Navayi and the Rich World of Turkic-Persian Poetry. An Interview with Nicholas Walmsley

  • July 3, 2020
Ali Shir Navayi born in 1441 in Herat, was a Turkic poet, writer, politician, linguist, and mystic, who was the greatest representative of Chagatai literature. He lived in the Timurid…
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