Category: Culture and Sports
Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir: “Housing is the Mongolian dream – and nightmare”
Mongolian filmmaker Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir discusses Ulaanbaatar, the country’s apartment obsession, masculinity, spirituality and her determination to show a modern Mongolia beyond stereotypes of nomads, horses and the steppe. [...]
‘I am a German from Kazakhstan’: Lena Wolf on deportation, memory and finding home
Lena Wolf, a German from Kazakhstan, reflects on her family’s deportation, Soviet-era Russification, migration to Germany and the search for identity across generations. [...]
Dotor Khuree: “We want to make Mongolian music with contemporary instruments”
Dotor Khuree blends Mongolian musical traditions with contemporary instrumentation. The Ulaanbaatar band discusses its latest EP, musical identity and Mongolia’s independent scene. [...]
Share Happiness, build an industry: Lola Animation’s Uzbek animation story
Producer Azimjon Rahimjonov speaks to Novastan about Lola Animation, the making of Share Happiness, the rapid growth of Uzbekistan’s animation sector and the ambition to bring Uzbek-created films to international… [...]
“Ghérip-Senem”: The visualization of Persianate poetic symbolism in Uyghur cinema
Diego Benning Wang explores how the 1981 Uyghur film Ghérip-Senem turns a shared Persianate-Turkic romance into distinctly Uyghur cinema through poetry, music and visual symbolism. [...]
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From Tashkent to the international stage: Diana Skobina brings Uzbek music to new audiences
From Tashkent to international concert halls, pianist Diana Skobina reflects on her Uzbek musical roots, classical training, life in the United States and her ambition to bring Central Asian repertoire… [...]
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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