Northwest Arkansas now boasts an Afghan-Turkish restaurant and specialty foods market thanks to refugees. Former Afghan ...

Tashkent Supermarket’s new West Village location offers staples like plov and samsas hot and fresh – a taste of Central Asia for everyone ...

This Uzbek pilaf is slow-cooked with lamb in a heavy cauldron for rich flavor, soft meat, and perfectly seasoned rice.

This fall, Bukhara hosted Central Asia’s first major international art exhibition, the Bukhara Biennial, with goals ...

From Belle Époque posters to radical performance art, 2025 delivered exhibitions that pushed boundaries and opened ...

It’s impossible to discuss today’s Uzbekistan, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s “New Uzbekistan,” without making a comparisons to the old Uzbekistan, the country Islam Karimov built. The stories of ...

The kitchen was at the heart of discussions at Gastro Forum Tashkent 2025, where chefs, restaurateurs and suppliers from across Central Asia met to talk about food as a business, a skill and a part of ...

President Trump late Thursday announced a new trade deal across several sectors between Uzbekistan and the United States. “Over the next three years, Uzbekistan will be purchasing and investing almost ...

Bilateral relations between Qatar and Uzbekistan have reached an unprecedented peak, Ambassador of Uzbekistan to Qatar His Excellency Dr. Ashraf Khodjaev has said. Citing HH the Amir’s statement that ...

In Tashkent, Uzbekistan’s capital, the streets are lined with paddle-wielding chefs called oshpaz who expertly tend to the sizzling contents of enormous cauldronlike pans. The air fills with aromas of ...

The ancient city of Bukhara is staging its first contemporary art Biennale. BUKHARA, Uzbekistan -- In a sun-lit room in Tashkent, 75-year-old Akbar Rakhimov sits at his workbench. He leans forward, ...

When the contemporary art curator Diana Campbell, who helped shape the art scene in the Philippines and Bangladesh, invites me to go somewhere, I’m all ears. Her scouting trips are always a piñata of ...