Episode 45: Is “post-Soviet” still relevant?
TURAN TALK with Erica Marat, professor of political science and editor-in-chief of "Central Asian Survey"
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Long form newsletter and podcast covering underreported stories from Central Asia by journalist and author Agnieszka Pikulicka
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Episode 44: Why does China have an image problem in Central Asia?
TURAN TALK with Edward Lemon, president of the Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs
A well-deserved summer break
Gone swimming, back in August!
Can Tajikistan fix Central Asia’s water crisis?
Tajikistan has emerged as a leading advocate for global water cooperation. Yet as the water crisis worsens across Central Asia and beyond, finding solutions has become increasingly urgent.
Episode 43: Has Islam ever posed a threat to the Uzbek state?
TURAN TALK with Bagila Bukharbayeva, journalist and author of "The Vanishing Generation: Faith and Uprising in Modern Uzbekistan"
Episode 42: Why Central Asia still needs akyns - the poets who speak truth to power
TURAN TALK with Akylai Ötkülbek kyzy, a Kyrgyz researcher of aitysh
Episode 41: Hashish and survival in rural Kyrgyzstan
TURAN TALK with Gulzat Botoeva, Associate Professor of Criminology at Swansea University
Episode 40: Abdulla Qodiriy's "Bygone Days" and the fight for intellectual property rights
TURAN TALK with Mark Reese, translator of Uzbek literature, academic and entrepreneur
Episode 39: What cinema can tell us about Central Asia
TURAN TALK with Assiya Issemberdiyeva, a Kazakh film critic and PhD candidate at Queen Mary University of London
Iya’s lifelines: A Jewish journey to survival in Central Asia
In the 1940s, Tashkent became an unlikely centre of Yiddish culture as Eastern European Jews were evacuated to Soviet Central Asia during World War II. Yet the story has remained largely forgotten.