This multi-volume History of Civilizations of Central Asia is the first attempt to present a comprehensive picture of the cultures that flourished and vanished at the heart of the Eurasian continent ...
A Central Asian Soviet-era pop music anthology shines a light on the region's ethnic diversity and music that transcends genres from Korean Brass Bands to Uyghur garage rock to Crimean jazz.
The states of Central Asia are awash with oil, gas, and precious minerals. Yet in an era of shifting global markets and the ...
Taylor Hermes, an assistant professor of anthropology at the U of A, received a grant of €100,000 to research the evolution and spread of the plague-causing bacterium Yersinia pestis during the Bronze ...
China's strategic relationship with Central Asia has grown expansively over the past decade, symbolized by both the 1996 founding of the "Shanghai Five," which in June 2001 became the Shanghai ...
The UNHCR Representation to Central Asia is based in Almaty, managing UNHCR activities across the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and the ...
Russia and Central Asia have been mutually shaped by decades of labor migration, but these long-running ties have begun to ...