“The Art of Dining: Food Culture in the Islamic World” provides an entrée into a world stretching from Egypt through the Middle East and on to Central and South Asia via its robust culinary ...

A Buddha from China, circa A.D. 590, is made of wood with lacquer, gilding and paint. “Across Asia: Arts of Asia and the Islamic World” highlights strengths of the Walters Art Museum’s ...

Jaramazan’s popularity has been growing since 1991, when Central Asia gained independence from the Soviet Union. Since then the region’s re-Islamization has led to the popularization of Islamic ...

One artist who epitomises the new energy surrounding contemporary Uzbek art is Aziza Kadyri, who represented Uzbekistan at the Venice Biennale last year and is also slated to present new work at the ...

Emine Fetvaci, a prominent scholar and accomplished teacher whose research areas include the arts of the book in the Islamic world, and Ottoman, Mughal and Safavid art and architecture, has been ...

Tashkent (AsiaNews) - In recent months, the "modernist" Islam movement of the early 20th century has been making a comeback among the intellectual elites and power structures of Central Asia, as ...

Islamic Finance in Central Asia. The Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) has been a major partner in the development of Central Asia since the early 1990s. Its mission is to alleviate poverty, promote ...

In 2014, Chatham House released a report titled The Myth of Post-Soviet Muslim Radicalisation in the Central Asian Republics.At that time, a significant, Western-funded counter-radicalisation industry ...

Cartier and Islamic Art: In Search of Modernity, currently on show at the Dallas Museum of Art after a hugely successful run at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, reveals the way in which ...

‘Clouds, Power and Ornament – Roving Central Asia’ features works by 26 artists from Central Asian countries including Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.

Chef Syrgak Oktaybrev hand-pulls lagman noodles at Jibek Jolu on Jan. 8, 2024. Oktaybrev, who comes from the Talas region of Kyrgyzstan, points out that seasonal availability greatly influences ...

Tashkent (AsiaNews) - In recent months, the "modernist" Islam movement of the early 20th century has been making a comeback among the intellectual elites and power structures of Central Asia, as ...