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UZBEKISTAN

Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva - these names resonate through time but Uzbekistan is much more than the sum of its romantic parts. The most populous of the Central Asian states, Uzbekistan is home to a wide range of traditions from the fertile Ferghana Valley in the east to the desiccated Ust-Yurt plateau in the west.

Find out more about Uzbekistan in the pages of steppe:

Issue 1:
	Listens in on a conversation between the Uzbek novelist Hamid Ismailov and Robert Chandler, the translator of Ismailov's novel, The Railway Visits the daughter of the last Emir of Bukhara at her home in Maryland for a personal recollection of the man known as both a legendary ruler and a father Presents the glorious technicolour photographs of the Emirate of Bukhara taken by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin Gorskii at the dawn of the twentieth century
Issue 2:
	Follows in the footsteps of the African-American poet Langston Hughes during his travels through Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan in the 1930s Discovers some unlikely Elvis paraphernalia in Tashkent
Issue 3:
	Marvels at the vibrant Pip Rau collection of ikats on display at the V&A in London Reviews Uzbek Embroidery, which examines the abstract embroideries of the Lakai and Kungrat nomadic tribes, as well as the urban textiles of Shahrisabz Pays tribute to the late avant-garde theatre director, Mark Weil Devotes a thirty page feature to the Savitsky Museum in Karakalpakstan, which holds one of the most astounding collections of nonconformist Soviet art outside of Russia
Issue 4:
	Admires the Russian textiles that line the inside of many chapans (traditional robes) from Central Asia
Issue 5:
	Visits a Bukharan Jewish restaurant in Queens, New York Discovers the joys of yoghurt, in all its forms, including the infamous qurut , or dried cheese balls
Issue 6:
	Provides a guide to Uzbekistan’s famed silk ikat – from the nineteenth cenury to the present day Takes a snapshot of the nineteenth-century fortified town of Khiva

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