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Losing Your Country (and Finding the Other)
with Dildora Damisch
Confessions of Nomad Booktivist
with Filip Noubel
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 is a Kyrgyz documentary filmmaker. Her work honors ancestral memory and resilience, blending a nomadic Central Asian worldview with the contemplative aesthetics of author's cinema.
LATEST PODCAST/BLOG POSTS
Losing Your Country (and Finding the Other)
with Dildora Damisch
Confessions of Nomad Booktivist
with Filip Noubel
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.