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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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  • 17 min
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Panjikent, the Central Asian Pompeii. An Interview with Pavel Lurje

  • May 7, 2020
Interview with Pavel Lurje Head of the Sector of Central Asia, Caucasus and Crimea, Senior Research Fellow of the Oriental Department of the State Hermitage Museum, head of the Panjikent Expedition.Dr.…
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  • 7 min
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Сarpet Propaganda: From Azerbaijan to Turkmenistan. The “Echo of Soviet Azerbaijan” Exhibition

  • February 28, 2020
The State Museum of Oriental Art of Russia, in cooperation with the Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum (ANCM), is holding an exhibition called “Echo of Soviet Azerbaijan. Carpet. Embroidery. Poster.” The…
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  • 9 min
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Petroglyphs of Kazakhstan

  • February 14, 2020
Author Alan Georgievich Medoev (1934-1980) Alan Medoev was born in Leningrad in 1934. In the 1960-1980s he guided archaeological teams and expeditions in the field; he discovered and explored the…
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ALZHIR – A Place of Remembrance

  • January 31, 2020
Situated in the center of Kazakhstan, ALZHIR (Акмолинский лагерь жен изменников родины, “the Akmola camp of wives of traitors to the homeland”) was a notorious prison for thousands of women…
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    Law and Custom in Central Asia: An Interview with Judith Beyer
    • 24.07.20
    • 10 min
    • Culture
    Khorezm Lazgi: The Sunniest Dance on Earth
    • 03.08.20
    • 16 min
    • Culture
    The Art of the Wood Carving in Tajikistan
    • 02.09.20
    • 6 min
    • Culture
    Sweat, Blood and Central Asian Dance
    • 10.09.20
    • 9 min
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  • 9 min
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The Mystery of Kyrk-Kyz: From 40 Women-Warriors to the Warriors of Light

  • January 16, 2020
A mysterious castle in Uzbekistan’s Surhandarya bears the name of Kyrk-Kyz, meaning “40 girls.” Was this a sanctuary of legendary women-warriors, or was it home to a group of Sufi…
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  • 12 min
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Destructing Soviet Architecture in Central Asia

  • December 13, 2019
Soviet architecture in Central Asia, as the name tells, is a fusion of Soviet modernity with traditional Central Asian culture that remains remarkable to this day. Persian and Islamic motifs…
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  • 10 min
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Deciphering the Saukele: The Traditional Headdress of Kazakh Brides

  • November 21, 2019
English transcript of the video presentation belowToday I am going to talk about one particular type of traditional Kazakh clothing: the headdress of a bride, called a saukele.Voronina-Utkina A.A. Watercolor.…
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How they met Tamara Khanum in London and the secret of Usto Olim Komilov’s turban

  • October 22, 2019
Tamara Khanum and her musicians, Credit: Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, Cecil Sharp House, London, 1935 Author Rosa Vercoe is an independent dance researcher and blogger. She is based in St…
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Lost Sogdian Art in China

  • August 6, 2019
Little is known of the lives of Sogdians in China, even though the Chinese connections of Sogdian elites played an important political, economic, and cultural role in the lives of…
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    Law and Custom in Central Asia: An Interview with Judith Beyer
    • 24.07.20
    • 10 min
    • Culture
    Khorezm Lazgi: The Sunniest Dance on Earth
    • 03.08.20
    • 16 min
    • Culture
    The Art of the Wood Carving in Tajikistan
    • 02.09.20
    • 6 min
    • Culture
    Sweat, Blood and Central Asian Dance
    • 10.09.20
    • 9 min
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  • 8 min
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Dinmukhamed Kunaev’s House Museum

  • July 26, 2019
Dinmukhamed Kunaev was a leader of Soviet Kazakhstan. As the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan he was in office from 7 December 1964, to 16 December 1986.…
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  • 12 min
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The Central Asia Collection at the British Library – An Interview with Michael Erdman

  • April 18, 2019
The Turkish and Turkic Collections at the British Library are the largest collections of manuscript and printed material from the Turkic World housed anywhere in the United Kingdom. Michael Erdman…
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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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