Central Asia Archives - PocketCultures

November 7, 2012

In a recent group post we wrote about traditions for naming children in different countries. In today’s [...]

April 27, 2011

I have got very diverse relationships with places, each city or village either loves me or not, [...]

March 23, 2011

The Kyrgyz documentary film “Long Distance love” was filmed by Swedish team Magnus Gerttenom and Ellen Jonsson. [...]

March 9, 2011

Elnura Osmonalieva’s “Almaz” is the first full-length documentary filmed in Kyrgyzstan in the past fifteen years. Directed [...]

March 8, 2011

Written by a group of journalism students from the University of Central Asia in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek [...]

November 19, 2010

A crowd patiently waits, snaking around the dark halls of a small office. Some pace nervously while [...]

October 20, 2010

I have many foreign friends, and one of them wrote this letter to his friends from all [...]

October 5, 2010

Translator Astana is the blog of Snezhana, who is a Russian, English and French translator in Astana, [...]

September 2, 2010

Kazakh Nomad shows ‘A Westerner’s view of Kazakhstan’. It’s written by American teacher who would like to [...]

August 16, 2010

Central Asian bazaars are a place to buy all kind of goods from food to clothes, electronics [...]

July 6, 2010

In the current times of turbulence in my country, when you all have chance to watch television [...]

October 6, 2009

Afghanistan pop music’s heyday was during the 1970’s and the country has gone through a lot since [...]

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