Category: Culture and Sports
Ivy League Orientalism: Staging Samarkand in Princeton, 1926
A century ago, Princeton’s Triangle Club staged Samarkand, a lavish comic opera that transformed the Central Asian city into an Orientalist fantasy of romance, luxury and exoticism. Diego Benning Wang… [...]
“River Dreams”: A river, 100 women and a portrait of Kazakhstan
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Between integration and inheritance: How Armenians in Uzbekistan are redefining community
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The Silk Road Paradigm and the Dilemma of In-Between
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In the Country of Özbeg: Photographing Uzbekistan 136 Years After Paul Nadar
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How Uzbek Composers Made the Violin Their Own
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From Q-pop to Hip-Hop: Kazakhstan’s Multilingual Sound
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When the clarinet speaks Uzbek: bringing an overlooked classical repertoire to the world
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A Language in Motion: Mahabat Sadyrbek on Teaching Kyrgyz to the English-Speaking World
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From Küi to Metallica: How Aldaspan Electrified the Kazakh Dombra
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From Bukhara to Queens: The Global Journey of the Bukharan Jews
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How Central Asia became home for the Koryo-Saram
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