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.

Native of Tajikistan, now based in Boston, researcher and educator Dr. Elena Neva talks on her new book "The Tajik Jewelry".

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.  

Next Wednesday four years ago the Andijan massacre took place in Uzbekistan, where, by some accounts, hundreds of innocent people were killed during the anti-government uprising. Many independent journalists and authors, who wrote or expressed their opinions over the massacre, were persecuted or exiled. Here we bring the poetry of one of them, Kudrat Bobojon, who now lives in Western Europe.