Power, Politics, and the Myth of Exceptionalism
How the World Denied Women Their Rights — and What Came of It
The History of One of the Most Brutal Deportations in the USSR
From the Xiongnu Empire to the Turkish Republic
Ethnographer Dosymbek Qatyran on ancient greetings and forgotten rituals
Timothy May on Chinggis Khan, Warfare, and the Limits of Conquest
From Medieval Folk Hero to Soviet Screen Icon
How the canonical image of the poet was created
Politics, Ethnography, and a Kazakh Scholar’s Uneasy Legacy
Guess what this thing was used for.
How the Nomadic Way of Life Gave Rise to an Ancient Science
Qalam’s Curated History Reading List
How the Kazakh Khanate’s Economy Worked—and Why It Was Far More Complex Than It Seems
