The Turbulent Story of the National-Territorial Delimitation of 1924
A Love Story Spanning Fifteen Centuries
How the Syr Darya Corridor Once Connected China to the Golden Horde
Everything We’ve Forgotten About One of Humanity’s Oldest Holidays
Power, Politics, and the Myth of Exceptionalism
The History of One of the Most Brutal Deportations in the USSR
From the Xiongnu Empire to the Turkish Republic
From Medieval Folk Hero to Soviet Screen Icon
How the canonical image of the poet was created
Guess what this thing was used for.
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
