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Tamada Travels: The Caucasus Beyond the Headlines

January 25, 2013 - 9:51am

by: Giorgi Lomsadze

Georgia

Episode 2: The Georgian Baths - The thermal baths in the Georgian capital Tbilisi have fascinated travelers for centuries, and the city...
Interview 180: Where Does Kazakhstan's Higher Education Stand?

December 28, 2012 - 12:00pm

by: Dean C.K. Cox

Kazakhstan

Dr. Mukash Burkitbayev is the vice rector of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University in Almaty, Kazakhstan. As professor of chemical sciences, Burkitbayev was jointly awarded in 2007 the NATO Science...
Interview 180: The Question of Nazarbayev's Successor

December 14, 2012 - 12:00pm

by: Dean C.K. Cox, Joanna Lillis

Kazakhstan

Dosym Satpayev is an independent political analyst and the director of the Kazakhstan Risks Assessment Group, an Almaty-based think tank that researches...
Tamada Travels: The Caucasus Beyond the Headlines

November 15, 2012 - 12:07pm

by: Giorgi Lomsadze

Georgia

Episode 1: Fortunetelling in Georgia - Take a look at the news, and the Caucasus is all about power struggles. But live there awhile,...
Interview 180: Afghan News Media Industry Matures, But Future Is Uncertain

October 26, 2012 - 11:00am

by: Dean C.K. Cox

Afghanistan

Massoud Hossaini is a staff photojournalist for Agence France-Presse and the winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography for his image of a suicide bombing in Kabul,...
Interview 180: As NATO Troops Withdraw From Afghanistan, Journalism Suffers

October 19, 2012 - 1:55am

by: Dean C.K. Cox

Afghanistan

Massoud Hossaini is a staff photojournalist for Agence France-Presse and the winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography for his image of a suicide bombing in Kabul,...
Turkey: Village Preserves “Bird Language” in a Cell-Phone World

July 13, 2012 - 9:27am

by: Alexander Christie-Miller

Turkey

In most ways, Kuşköy resembles countless other villages nestled in the Pontic Mountains along Turkey’s Black Sea coast. Its 500 or so residents cultivate tea and hazelnuts; there is one street...
Mongolia: Afghanistan’s Minority Hazara Students Find Peace in Ulaanbaatar

October 28, 2011 - 11:00am

by: Pearly Jacob

Mongolia

Ulaanbaatar hardly registers as dream destination for study-abroad scholars. But for a handful of Afghan students, all-expenses-paid undergraduate scholarships to study in Mongolia's capital city...
Afghanistan: Sufi Mysticism Makes a Comeback in Kabul

August 26, 2011 - 11:00am

by: Iason Athanasiadis

Afghanistan

In a garden in Kabul’s Karte-Seh district, a group of Sufi musicians and poets gather for an evening of mystical melodies. Platters of rice pilau and fruit cover carpets spread across the lawn....
Kyrgyzstan: A Nation (Still) Divided

June 9, 2011 - 12:58am

by: Ted Trautman

Kyrgyzstan

A year since ethnic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan left over 400 Kyrgyz and Uzbeks dead, the region, on the surface, seems to have returned to normal. But the two communities are struggling to...

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