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  Ramadan Mubarak

  Hope this doesn’t offends anyone. I thought it was kind of amusing, and it does illustrate the sacrifice that is celebrating Ramadan.

  8/01/11 • (Comments Off on Ramadan Mubarak)

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  Happy American Independence Day

  For some reason, every Fourth of July weekend, I am unable to go to the Embassy cookout, but I am hoping to grill burgers outdoors myself this year. If only we could get decent corn on the cob in Astana, I’d be happy. I am pleased that this year they made the 4th a day […]

  7/04/11 • (Comments Off on Happy American Independence Day)

• The Sting of Criticism

  Sting, who was scheduled to play tonight as part of the Astana Day festivities, has cancelled his engagement in Kazakhstan after Amnesty International apprised him of the situation with striking oil workers in West Kazakhstan: Amnesty International recently apprised Sting about the situation in Kazakhstan regarding the repression and crackdown against oil workers, their union […]

  7/04/11 • (1)

• Gift Giving

  March is a crazy month in Kazakhstan for holidays, eating out and gift-giving. There’s the 8th of May, International Women’s Day. There’s Nauryz on the 22nd and 23rd. This year they gave us five days off so lots of chances to be invited and invite people to dinner. We’re coming off of the 23rd of […]

  4/03/11 • (Comments Off on Gift Giving)

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  Happy Nauryz

  Or Nowruz, if you prefer.

  3/22/11 • (Comments Off on Happy Nauryz)

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  Happy International Women’s Day

  3/08/11 • (Comments Off on Happy International Women’s Day)

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  Merry Western Christmas

  For Christmas, a closeup of one of my favorite winter wallpapers. Although the designer, Vlad Gerasimov lives in Irkutsk, Russian and not Kazakhstan, the snow leopard is the official symbol of Astana and one unofficial symbol of the whole country. So Merry Western American Christmas. May Santa Claus get you everything you want!

  12/24/10 • (Comments Off on Merry Western Christmas)

• Halloween is Not a Kazakh Tradition

  Zakon.kz is reporting that a member of Parliament has written a letter to the Prime Minister asking for a ban on Halloween [RU]. Kurmangali Uali wrote to Karim Massimov, the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan and to the Head of the KNB asking the government to actions to ban Halloween, citing the lack of roots in […]

  11/16/10 • (8)

• Happy Ait!

  For the end of Ramadan, a nice video by Lena Khan, a Muslim American director. She asked 2000 American Muslims what message they wanted to send to the world and this is the result. A beautiful and funny film/music video set to a wonderful song by Kareem Salama.

  9/09/10 • (1)

• Happy Ramadan, whether you fast or not

  Happy Ramadan or Ramazan or whatever you call it. Whether you fast or not, a funny Ramadan commercial video.

  8/11/10 • (Comments Off on Happy Ramadan, whether you fast or not)

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