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Preserving Uyghur Language, Culture & Identity in the Diaspora

Join us for a special talk by Dr. Erkin Sidick, former NASA engineer & President of the Uyghur Projects Foundation (US). #ErkinSidick

🗓 Sunday, 19 Oct 2025 | 🕒 3–5 PM at SOAS

#Uyghur #Culture #Language

09.10.2025 21:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Uyghur Poetry with Aziz Isa Elkun by Radio Solidarity In this episode, we are joined again by Aziz Isa Elkun, who shares how writing and sharing Uyghur poetry has helped him process both his experiences in his homeland of East Turkistan and his journey t...

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In this episode, we discuss the impact of Uyghur poetry, the poets who have most influenced him, and how poetry continues to play a vital role in resisting and raising awareness of the Uyghur genocide.

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16.09.2025 10:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"This book gave me the opportunity to hear from the Uyghur people themselves. It is a treasury of history, poetry, culture, and human experience expressed in a variety of forms and symbols that speak to the richness of their tradition." S. Hasbrouck

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14.01.2025 17:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Aziz Isa Elkun – Maqam Beyond Nation

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06.12.2024 00:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Uyghur Poems by Various Poets

#poetry #uyghur #uyghurpoetry

14.09.2024 18:38 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

Maqām Beyond Nation explores a field of music-making that stretches from North Africa to Central Asia; a set of historically fluid and inter-connected creative practices which were transformed under 20th century nationalisms into fixed repertoires.
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06.12.2024 00:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Events – Maqam Beyond Nation

Sharing some of the activities going on around our research project Maqām beyond Nation www.maqamproject.uk/category/eve...

05.12.2024 23:17 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0