Culture
- Yurts Are High Fashion and Slum Fashion Too
2011-12-05 - Apples, Sure. But THC is from Kazakhstan too?
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2011-09-23
- Yurts Are High Fashion and Slum Fashion Too
Resources
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2012-07-21 - What Do You Know About Kazakhstan?
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2011-06-12
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Fun
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2011-12-02
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Tourism
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2010-07-30
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Life in KZ
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2011-12-07 - Healthcare and the Private Sector
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2011-09-23
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Redbubble
Tag archive for ‘Islam’
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Nauryz Nauryz!
Happy Nauryz! On the 22nd of March will be the vernal equinox, the Persian-Muslim New Year, the Kazakhstan national holiday Nauryz! One of my favorite holidays here because it’s one of the few where they do more than just make a big concert of alternating pop hits and old Kazakh songs. The same songs every […]
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Headscarves Affect Perceptions
In a study by MediaCurves, Americans were asked to judge a women’s personality based on a picture. The trick was that all participants were given a picture of the same woman, but 50% of the time she was wearing a headscarf and 50% of the time she had her hair down and was wearing an […]
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Kazakhs released from Guantanamo Bay
Three Kazakhs out of four allegedly held have been released from Guantanomo Bay: The three Kazakhs arrived in their Central Asian homeland on Saturday and were met by relatives who took them home, said Foreign Ministry spokesman Ilyas Omarov. Omarov said the three would not face investigation and charges “because their release means that they […]
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Religious and Ethnic Tolerance
On the 22nd of November, outside Almaty, local authorities destroyed the only Hare Krishna commune in the CIS, a total of eleven houses on 48 acres. The group apparently was not prepared because: The group apparently was not prepared because there is currently a state special commission – appointed to investigate allegations of religious harassment […]
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Andijon Video
Video of the Andijon Uprising This video–70 minutes long–was put together from two videos made on the scene, both confiscated by the government of Uzbekistan. It’s been edited and used to prove the government’s case that it was just defending itself from well-armed and funded international terrorists (In one accusation–well-armed Islamic terrorists bent on creating […]
