USAID, the Smithsonian Institution and the United States Department of Commerce’s Commercial Law Development Program collaborated to create the “Lookbook of Central Asian Women Artisans.” The book aims to...
A Lyrical BiographyBY ORAZ YAGMYRTranslated by Dr Youssef AzemounPublished by the Society of Friends of Makhtumkuli, 145 pages, 2017. NURY HALMAMMEDOV is the foremost composer to have emerged from the Turkmen people in...
Turkmen literature is largely unknown. Its poets wrote about different universal topics but few of them have stood the test of time and the region’s historical changes. One of such figures is Kemine. A satirical poet...
The article The Role of the Horse Among the Turkmen, written in 2017 by Alexander A. Kim and Ogulgerek Dzh. Nazarova, discusses the key role that the horse has served in Turkmen history and how it continues to be an...
Youssef Azemoun This article is published with the author’s permission. Abstract During the 1960s, when Turkmen literature was flourishing, the simple yet profound poems of a young woman began to attract attention...
This article was originally published in the EastEast magazine. Hamdam Zakirov on the Turkmenian scene and the legacy of Fergana festival In the third and final segment of Hamdam Zakirov’s series on Central Asian jazz...
This article was originally published in the EastEast magazine. Yan Matusevich tracks the global influences of a national scene Yan Matusevich, through in depth research and a meticulous scouring of Youtube rabbit...
Victoria Clement is a scholar, historian, and author who has traveled widely in Central Asia and has lived in Russia and Turkmenistan (2001-2003). Her book, Learning to Become Turkmen: Literacy, Language, and Power...
