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
What Is Qyz Jibek Really About?
How the Copper Mines of Central Asia Shaped Humanity
Guess what this thing was used for.
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
Forgotten missions and lost sovereignty
