Central Asia through the currents of history, the legacy of empires, the crossroads of ideas and trade routes, and the formation of identities.
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
Politics, Ethnography, and a Kazakh Scholar’s Uneasy Legacy
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
The Actor Who Became the Face of an Era
A Chronicle of the Second All-Kazakh Congress
Guess what this thing was used for.
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
