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Four Poems From “A New Diwan (H/T Alisher Navoiy)”

October 26, 2020
By Andrew Staniland

My collection A New Diwan (h/t Alisher Navoiy) is a sequence of 84 short poems inspired by Uzbekistan, its literature…

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Dushanbe’s Potemkin Hotel: Nepotism and Public Integrity in Tajikistan

October 21, 2020
By Umedjon Majidi

For over a decade, the empty shell of a multistory hotel has sat vacant on Rudaki Avenue, the central thoroughfare…

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A Troubling Taboo: The Absence of Sex Education in Kazakhstan

October 20, 2020
By Asel Shabdanova

Assel was 13 years old when her teacher attempted to educate her about sex. Visibly nervous, the teacher showed the…

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Articles, Changing Uzbekistan, Cultural Lives

Waiting for the Sea: An Interview with Director George Itzhak

October 16, 2020
By Edward Lemon

Waiting for the Sea from George Itzhak on Vimeo. The film centers on a techno music festival in Moʻynoq, in…

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After a Flawed Election: What Next for Tajikistan?

October 15, 2020
By Oleg Antonov and Edward Lemon

On October 11, a masked Emomali Rahmon cast his ballot in the sixth presidential election in the country’s 29-year history.…

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Articles, Central Asia in Global History

Indian Shikarpuri Trader Communities in Central Asia

October 14, 2020
By Anita Sengupta

Shikarpur is a town in Sindh in modern-day Pakistan sitting at the mouth of the Bolan Pass, which was once…

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Articles, Changing Uzbekistan

Toxic Masculinity and Uzbekistan’s Domestic Violence Crisis

October 9, 2020
By Anvar Latipov

On September 3 Akida Mokhirova , blogger and founder of the charitable organization “Pokiza Insonlar” (“Noble People” in Uzbek), posted…

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The Migration – Extremism Fallacy

September 30, 2020
By Caress Schenk

Even if all 5,000 of the Central Asian fighters in Syria had been migrants in Russia at a particular moment in time, this would mean a migrant in Russia has a 0.05-0.1% chance of radicalizing, based on recent estimates of that community’s size. In other words, there is at least a 99.9% chance of not radicalizing. 

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As Sino-India Relations Enter Free-fall, New Delhi Finds Itself at the Margins of the SCO

September 28, 2020
By Phunchok Stobdan

High in the mountains of Ladakh, Asia’s economic giants India and China came to blows in June in their disputed…

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London’s Anti-Kleptocracy Setback: A New Way Forward?

September 28, 2020
By Casey Michel

Earlier this year, overshadowed by both the pandemic and the ongoing global recession, the United Kingdom took one of its most substantial steps toward rooting out dirty post-Soviet money from British markets.

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