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AFGHANISTAN ARTS AND CULTURE LINKS

Arts
German Theatre in Almaty
Kazakh architecture: Background
The Mausoleum of Hodja Ahmed Yasev
Ancient sights of Kazakstan and Central Asia (photo gallery)
Murat Alimov, Cartoonist of The Globe / Vremya Po newspaper

Culture
Kazakhstan Culture - including music, language, literature, and more.
Salaam Central Asia - description of Kazakh culture by a Peace Corps volunteer
Kazakh Cooking
Traditional Jewelry from Kazakstan
The Kazakhstan Freenet Web Portal

Language
The UCLA Language Materials Project: Kazakh Profile
Beginning Kazakh: online lesson from the Univesity of Arizona
Sample Kazakh Lesson from Manuel de Qazaq, an introductory textbook
List of North Armerican Schools that Teach Kazakh from the University of Minnesota

Alpamysh: Central Asian Identity under Russian Rule, by H.B. Paksoy
On the Turkic oral tradition of Central Asia
Introduction and Chapter 1: Alpamysh and the Turkic Dastan genre
Chapter 2: Attempts to destroy and save Alpamysh, Phase I
Chapter 3: The Alpmaysh Dastan (translation of Divay's 1901 Alpamysh and Commentary)
Chapter 4: Attempts to destroy and save Alpamysh, Phase II
Selected Bibliography and Index

Press Release 11/28/00: President Clinton Hosts Aga Khan on Foreign Policy Panel

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