Exploring what connects art with identity, memory and contemporary social issues.
Qalam’s Curated History Reading List
How the Kazakh Khanate’s Economy Worked—and Why It Was Far More Complex Than It Seems
The Actor Who Became the Face of an Era
A Chronicle of the Second All-Kazakh Congress
The Chronology of December 1986
Daniel Scarborough on Orthodoxy, Islam, and Imperial Power in Turkestan
Historian Marat Absemetov on the Difficult Fate of Mirjaqyp Dulatuly
What Is Qyz Jibek Really About?
Peter B. Golden on Etymology, Identity, and Power in the Early Turkic world
Guess what this thing was used for.
How the Copper Mines of Central Asia Shaped Humanity
Did the Kazakh khanzada serve as an instrument of the empire?
Why Shamshi Kaldayakov was criticized—and why it never stopped him from becoming a national favorite
