Central Asia

Solveiga Kalva interviews Hadicha in the village of Avj, Tajikistan (Part 1).

During some recent wanderings on the internet, I came across a most particular subreddit: “Tartaria”. At first, I thought the subreddit was dedicated to some fantasy or steampunk fictional world, [...]

Solveiga Kalva interviews Zevar in Avj, Tajikistan.

Solveiga Kalva interviews Zevar in Avj, Tajikistan.

Solveiga Kalva interviews Salim and Gulru about the local legends in Avj, Tajikistan.

Solveiga Kaļva interviews Soyabegim, an educator of resident of Avj.

Sabrina Gafforova on how the people of Tajikistan have reacted to the first confirmed cases of COVID-19 in their country.

Solveiga Kaļva interviews Bahti, a teenager from the remote Tajik village of Avj.

This article was originally published by ZOIS Spotlight “This is our homeland High, high mountains at one with the blue sky” Aga-Ini – Bizdin Meken (Our homeland) Rap music – for European [...]

August 24, 2017. A friend and I arrive in Murghab, Tajikistan, after an eight hour-long drive full of tea-drinking pauses at random houses, helping broken cars on the extremely solitary Pamir [...]