Introduction How is a Tajik woman portrayed in the story of Tajikistan and Central Asia in general? How much this notion of lack of geopolitical interest in the country and zero economic resources is creating a vacuum around the Tajik woman? How invisible are they? What does it take to bring the voice of women […]
The case of Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAR), the Pamir people. The Tajik Civil War of 1992-1994 took the lives of 100 thousand Tajik people and left 55 000 orphans and 20 000 widows. After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the civil war the country faced “severe economic challenges and a seriously lowered standard […]
Research on Central Asia suggests that very few have written about women of the remote area of the region that live in the high Mountains of Badakhshan in Tajikistan also known as the Pamirs. Migration from the Badakhshan region to Russia and other parts of the world is prevalent. What I am interested in is […]
By the time I moved to the United States of America, I had lived through poverty, famine and war, yet I consider myself one of the most privileged individuals in the world. The society in which I was raised had just begun learning to stand on its own when I was presented with the opportunity […]
In 2019, Pamiris of Tajikistan, the Tajik people of the Pamir mountains, current labor migrants in Moscow cleaned the grave of Shirinsho Shotemur at Donskoy Cemetery on the eve of Eid ul-Fitr (religious holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide that marks the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting.) Shirinsho Shotemur, a prominent Tajik […]