Tamar Kapanadze reviews “Smiling Georgia”, a film about an unfulfilled campaign promise that exposes how populism and poverty intersect in Georgia.

Diego Benning Wang explains how Soviet Kazakhstan became a major institutional center of Uyghur language scholarship, showing that Uyghur intellectual heritage is deeply […]

Diego Benning Wang traces the music and contested legacy of Murat Nasyrov, the Uyghur pop icon whose mysterious death in 2007 continues to fuel speculation.

Eerika Gröning shows how Finnish-Estonian contacts, from ferry tourism to rock music and television, helped expose Soviet Estonia to Western influence and contributed to the […]

Mathieu Lemoine shows how Armenia’s Yazidi community adds a quieter, often overlooked layer to the country’s story of refuge, memory and belonging.

Maya Ivanova reviews “2000 Songs of Farida”, a stunning depiction of 1920 Uzbekistan- a time of turmoil and transiton.