Director Saodat Ismailova directing a scene from her "40 Days of Silence" at the Sundance Lab. Photo: Fred Hayes The Sundance Director’s Lab is currently wrapping at the Sundance Institute in Utah, ...

LEILEK, KYRGYZSTAN - MAY 5: A view of damaged buildings on Kyrgyz side after last week's clashes at a disputed section of the Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan border, in Leilek district of the Batken region, ...

In space, Uzbek artist Saodat Ismailova is poised between Central Asia and Europe. The stories she wants to tell are ancient. Her tools are modern. As Ismailova told Eurasianet in a recent interview ...

Ismailova’s type of visual poetry is a great balm for our current geopolitical moment. The work engenders curiosity, and — though there’s a hard limit to what Western audiences can truly understand ...

What the West Misses About China’s Nuclear Build-up Two human rights advocates suing the president of Kyrgyzstan, Almazbek Atambayev, are getting their day in court. According to RFE/RL, a court in ...

The exhibition features the work of Saodat Ismailova, Alexander Ugay and Gulnur Mukazhanova—three artists who explore life in Central Asia. Gulnur Mukazhanova, ‘Portrait-Reflections (on the history of ...

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), requests your ...

GULAIM IS THE Boudicca of the Eurasian steppe. With her qyrq qyz—40 girls—she defended the ancient clans from eastern invaders, leaving an imprint on the collective consciousness of her region. She ...

On June 12, 20-year-old Chechen native Selima Ismailova was arrested at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport as she was preparing to leave the country, fleeing what she has described as years of violent abuse at ...