The history and culture of the East from ancient empires to the present day.
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
Historian Aibolat Kushkumbaev on the military stratagems of the Ulus of Jochi
Lecture One. Ancient China and the Steppe Empires
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
Guess what this thing was used for.
How the canonical image of the poet was created
Politics, Ethnography, and a Kazakh Scholar’s Uneasy Legacy
How the Nomadic Way of Life Gave Rise to an Ancient Science
