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Confessions of Nomad Booktivist

Confessions of Nomad Booktivist

Filip Noubel Welcome to Chaï Latte & Salt Hello, Filip Noubel is the managing editor of the freedom of expression outlet Global Voices  (globalvoices.org). He is a co-founder and co-editor at Cathay Publishers. Filip also contributes to an award-winning literary...
Reviving Forgotten Epic Voice

Reviving Forgotten Epic Voice

Kenje Kara, a Kyrgyz epic teller by B.Smirnov, 1903 (figure from “The Semetey of Kenje Kara” by Daniel Prior, Publisher Harrassowitz) Welcome to Chaï Latte & Salt, author: Janyl Jusupjan, an independent filmmaker and author from Kyrgyzstan. An amazing...
Treasures of Female Sufi Music

Treasures of Female Sufi Music

Razia Sultanova (2nd from left) with women during her field research in Uzbekistan, 1990s Dr. Razia Sultanova is author of “From Shamanism to Sufism, Women, Islam and Culture in Central Asia”. Listen the episode here: This episode of the first English...
Grandma’s Magic and Dance

Grandma’s Magic and Dance

Chaï Latte & Salt podcast episode Nr. 2 Sashar Zarif is a dancer, educator and researcher in Canada. He is a research associate at York Centre for Asian Research at York University in Toronto. Listen to his interview here: Transcript of the interview  Sashar...
Finding Mom After Half a Century

Finding Mom After Half a Century

Photo: Abdul (3rd from the left) with his family. Circa 1969, curtesy of Abdul Rakhim Khudayar Chaï Latte & Salt podcast episode nr.1 Life can be a sorrowful place without a mother, especially for a small child. But how about finding her alive and sound after half...
Why Chaï Latte & Salt

Why Chaï Latte & Salt

Janyl is from Ala-Too mountains in Kyrgyzstan on the border with China. Her mother used to prepare tea with milk and salt. It is a beverage for “extreme tea lovers” (чай для экстремалов), as one traveler put it. The podcast Chaï Latte & Salt brings you...