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Reviving Forgotten Epic Voice
with Daniel Prior
Treasures of Female Sufi Music
with Dr. Razia Sultanova
Grandma’s Magic and Dance
with Sashar Zarif
Finding Mom After Half a Century
with Abdul Rahim Hudayar
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 similarly...
about the podcast
Janyl Jusupjan's podcast with stories from Central Asia and beyond.
ABOUT JJ
Janyl Jusupjan was born in Kyrgyzstan, and studied literature in Kazakhstan. She worked as a journalist at Radio Free Europe /Radio Liberty, Prague before embarking on independent documentary filmmaking in 2015. Janyl studied film at Cinedoc Formation and Les Ateliers Varan in France. In 2016, her first feature documentary Letters from the Pamirs premiered at Traces de vies in France. Her second feature Prisoner of Wakhan is on an official selection for One World 2023. Atirkül in the Land of Real Men in post-production is her third feature documentary.
LATEST PODCAST/BLOG POSTS
Reviving Forgotten Epic Voice
with Daniel Prior
Treasures of Female Sufi Music
with Dr. Razia Sultanova
Grandma’s Magic and Dance
with Sashar Zarif
Finding Mom After Half a Century
with Abdul Rahim Hudayar
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 similarly...
about the podcast
Janyl Jusupjan's podcast with stories from Central Asia and beyond.