Uzbekistan’s Bukhara Biennial to Spotlight Central Asian Creativity
ASTANA – This year will mark the opening of the Bukhara contemporary art exhibition on Sept. 5 in Bukhara, a UNESCO Creative City of Crafts and Folk Art. The event boasts to become the largest and diverse art initiative in Central Asia and will run through Nov. 20. We spoke with Gayane Umerova, the commissioner…
Kazakh President proposes award to recognise Asian writers
NUR-SULTAN – Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev proposed at the recent first Forum of Asian Countries’ Writers in Nur-Sultan to establish the Asian Giant International Literary award. Tokayev called for increasing the prestige of the award and making it world-famous. “For the further development of Asian literature, we need to pay attention to the following important…
