During our Istanbul event, we caught up with our Fellows to discuss their journey with the project. Diana Toimbek is a researcher from our Central Asia hub. PEER is proud to mark #InternationalWomensDay in recognition of the invaluable contribution by our female team members.

I was on BBC Persian's Page 2 program last night to discuss the recent terrorist attack in Moscow. youtube.com/watch?v=I2Yki6… BBC Persian

I was interviewd by Радио Азаттык - Казахстан to discuss the hijab ban in schools, secularism, and freedom of religion in KZ. rus.azattyq.org/a/32886645.html

Russia, Kazakhstan evacuate 110,000 people as record floods set to worsen. 'Expecting peak flooding in three to five days'. 😨 aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/10…

Kazakhs rally in New York, Amsterdam, Milan over domestic violence amid trial of ex-minister accused of murdering his wife, but not in #Kazakhstan, where getting permission to rally is tough. Feminists were refused permission to march on 8 March this year tengrinews.kz/curious/nyu-yo…

My photo of the Chorsu Bazaar in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, won the second prize in the Asian Universities Alliance Asian Universities Alliance Photo Contest "Neighborhoods of Asia". It was taken during our PEER Network dissemination event in 2022.

Vacancy alert! Graduates in gender studies, history of science, history of Central Asia or the Russian empire: Exciting PhD position on "the gendered history of science in #CentralAsia"

Second photo announcement! My photo of Ismoil Somoni's statue in Khujand features on the cover of the Nationalities Papers.

Long overdue visit to my 1st Central Asian love - Khujand. Did you know that TJ just built some kind of Registan lookalike? Lenin's park was also revamped.

What's up with that pyjama party of Tajik migrants? Why are they dressed like that? Why were they arrested? This story is so bizarre. #Tajikistan #migration gazeta.ru/social/news/20…

Tajikistan banned hijabs! I was in TJ in May and people were mentioning raids against women in hijabs but I thought this was the usual state harrassment. I did not think they would dare to outlaw it. asiaplustj.info/en/news/tajiki…

Where did they find this "expert"? This is so completely off! "Taliban kicked ISIS-K out so they went to Tajikistan". "this whole area, Dagestan, if anyone remembers the Boston bombers, it's right near by". "This has been a hotbed for AlQaeda". youtube.com/watch?v=jTiSL_…

yenisafak.com/ru/news/20744 #tajikistan

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