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Kazakhstan

The Evolution of the ‘Toi’

How the Kazakh Wedding Survived Revolution, Bans, and a Changing World

~ 19 min read
Interviews

Changing the Game

From the West to the Rest: A Professor from the London School of Economics on the New Global Order

~ 13 min read
Central Asia

Lost Greeks, Hidden Kingdoms, and Forgotten Worlds

How a Seventeenth-Century Utopia Sparked a Literary Obsession with Central Asia

~ 17 min read

VINDICTIVE SEX

Is it true that a woman will always birth children from her first partner

~ 8 min read

ULTIMA THULE

Ultimate Thule or the island of icy darkness

~ 8 min read

TARTARE

Tartare is not just raw minced meat—it is raw minced meat with a most interesting history!

~ 4 min read

THE HISTORY OF BOLLYWOOD

Part One: Raj Kapoor- 1948-1954

~ 27 min read

BYZANTIUM AND THE TURKS: THE FALL AND RISE OF CIVILIZATIONS

Lecture 1. Byzantium and the Turks: An Introduction

~ 19 min read

BYZANTIUM AND THE TURKS: THE FALL AND RISE OF CIVILIZATIONS

Lecture 2: First Encounters

~ 27 min read

BYZANTIUM AND THE TURKS: THE FALL AND RISE OF CIVILIZATIONS

Lecture 3: Pechenegs

~ 22 min read

BYZANTIUM AND THE TURKS: THE FALL AND RISE OF CIVILIZATIONS

Lecture 4: Polovtsians

~ 13 min read

BYZANTIUM AND THE TURKS: THE FALL AND RISE OF CIVILIZATIONS

Lecture 5. Тhe Seljuk Invasion of Anatolia

~ 22 min read

BYZANTIUM AND THE TURKS: THE FALL AND RISE OF CIVILIZATIONS

Lecture 6: The Seljuk Breakthrough

~ 22 min read
Central Asia

From Samarkand to the Stars

Ulugh Beg and the Rise of Planetary Science in Central Asia

~ 11 min read
Partnership

Spring in Pixels

Reimagining Kazakh Culture through the Art of Aneliya Bekbassova

~ 4 min read
Central Asia

Sogdians on the Silk Road

Merchants, Missionaries, and the Spread of Religions across Eurasia

~ 12 min read
Kazakhstan

The Kazakh Khanate and the Russian Empire

The Decline of the Steppe State

~ 16 min read
Middle East

What to Do in Medieval Baghdad

A Time Traveler’s Guide

~ 18 min read
Kazakhstan

The Kazakh Khanate: Between Two Empires

The Third Player Strategy

~ 16 min read
Hieronymus Bosch. The Temptation of St. Anthony. 1500-1510 / Wikimedia Commons

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Guess what this thing was used for.

Central Asia

Fasting (Oraza) among Nineteenth-Century Kazakhs

Notes from Russian Travelers

~ 4 min read
Kazakhstan

Kazakh Khanate: The Dzungar Question

An Era of Diplomacy

~ 14 min read
Animals

The Art of Animal Diplomacy

How Pandas and Giraffes Became Gifts of Power

~ 15 min read
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