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Life in DanceSunday, 15 August 2010
Interview with Sashar Zarif, dancer and professor of dance. Sashar Zarif has recently been in Prague to give a workshop, now sixth year in row. Born in Iran to an Azeri family, he studied dance in Azerbaijan. Now in late 30s, Sashar runs a dance theatre and teaches at York University, Toronto.
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Monday, 31 May 2010
Native of Tajikistan, now based in Boston, researcher and educator Dr. Elena Neva talks on her new book "The Tajik Jewelry".
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Tuesday, 15 December 2009
Yodgar Obid left Uzbekistan in 1990s to Europe and calls Austria his home. Recently his poems over sufferings of little children on Uzbek cotton plantations found its way to the English language cotton campaign site.
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Muhamed Salih Launches BlogFriday, 09 July 2010
Exhiled poet and dissident politician from Uzbekistan Mohamed Salih has now his own site. It is in three language and contains his interviews, speaches, letters of prisoners to him, news and poetry in Russian, Uzbek and English. Address: http://muhammadsalih.com/
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Monday, 28 June 2010
Renowed Uzbek poet and author of the acclaimed novel Railway, Hamid Ismailov revisits his Kyrgyz-Uzbek family background in light of the tragic events in the Osh and Jalal-Abat regions of South Kyrgyzstan. In his BBC writer-in-residency blog he reminds us that "in these kinds of tragic events... everyone loses". Read the blog here
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Monday, 17 May 2010
"Light Thief" of Aktan Arym Kubat, one of the most prominent Kyrgyz film-makers, has been screened at 63rd Film Festival in Cannes May 14th, 2010. A critic called "Light Thief" a bumpy mix of poetry, naivete and documentary set in little-known Kyrgyzstan."
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Tuesday, 22 December 2009
People’s Writer of Uzbekistan Adil Yakubov has died December 21. Born in Kazakhstan in 1926, he was celebrated for his numerous novels and short stories, as well as for his raising pressing issues of his country.
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Sunday, 20 December 2009
Tashkent based Umida Akhmedova was interrogated by authorities in November on request of the Media and Information Agency of Uzbekistan which accused her of slandering and insulting “the Uzbek nation”. If found guilty, Mrs. Akhmedova may be sentenced up to three years of forced work or imprisoned for six month.
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