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Wu-Stan Clan: Central Asia’s ancient rap tradition
Meet aitysh, an adversarial, ad-libbed performance tradition that’s half music and half sick flow.
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The natural and unnatural wonders of Central Asia
In terms of space, Central Asia has a lot of it. With a combined land area of 3,926,790 square kilometres, the Five Stans cover 2.63 percent of the world’s landmass. Although that is an area far larger than India, Central Asia has a population density of just eighteen people per square kilometre. India, by comparison,…
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Cheques Through the Mail: the Changing Nature of Central Asia’s Remittance Economy
Central Asian nations must supersede historic economic ties with Russia in order to progress.
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One Belt, Whose Road?
The road to debt is paved with good intentions.
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Manas, Memory, and the Making of the Kyrgyz National Myth
How one epic poem has defined Kyrgyz identity.
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Hair-Clips and Hierarchy
What ‘Mambetka’ means for Kazakhstan in the Age of Inequality.
