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Tourism in Uzbekistan: weaving Silk Roads from the Louvre to your Instagram reels
Central Asia is fast becoming one of the trendiest travel locations for Brits, Americans, and Europeans. Over the last couple of years, first a smattering, then a flood of posts showing bloggers embarking on horse treks across Kyrgyzstan and touring the markets of Uzbek cities, has filled my Instagram feed. I know I am not…
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‘My Heart is a Tapestry Woven in Time to a Techno Beat’
Claudia-Macey Dare from Charles University, Prague takes you on a journey through the Eastern European and Central Asian techno scenes.
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‘Where the Wind Blew’ – with art against nuclear weapons
The Central Asia Forum team attended the screening this September of the documentary ‘Where the Wind Blew’ by famous British director Mr Andre Singer, at the First President Foundation Office in London. The event, organised by Kazakhstan’s First President Foundation in the UK, honoured the International Day against Nuclear Tests, which marks the closing, in…
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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.