Savor history through its flavors — from ancient recipes and the culinary habits of great rulers to the everyday food of nomads, past and present.
Timothy May on Chinggis Khan, Warfare, and the Limits of Conquest
Politics, Ethnography, and a Kazakh Scholar’s Uneasy Legacy
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
Guess what this thing was used for.
What Is Qyz Jibek Really About?
Peter B. Golden on Etymology, Identity, and Power in the Early Turkic world
How the Copper Mines of Central Asia Shaped Humanity
