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Monthly Archives May 2009

Old Kashgar: Reconfiguring Space With Bulldozers

Posted by Tewpiq on May 28, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

Word of Old Kashgar’s imminent destruction has reached The New York Times. The story broke in the American media back in March with the Washington Post, was picked up by the Emirati The National, and [...]

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Uighurs in the Media

Posted by Sherin on May 25, 2009 under Links , Society and Culture in Xinjiang , Xinjiang in the News

The Christian Science Monitor is clearly concerned with the rights of Uighurs. Their latest Uighur-related article interviews Abu Bakker Qassim in Tirana, Albania. The piece focuses on his perspective, as a now freed, former Guantánamo [...]

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Review: Invisible China by Colin Legerton and Jacob Rawson

Posted by Tewpiq on May 23, 2009 under Reviews of Xinjiang Material

Colin Legerton and Jacob Rawson. Invisible China: A Journey Through Ethnic Borderlands. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2009. 256 pp. I am pleased to have my very own copy of Invisible China, a remarkable travelogue just [...]

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Turkistan Islamic Party on Pakistan-China extradition: translation

Posted by Tewpiq on May 12, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

Recently, we linked to a video of a spokesman for the Turkistan Islamic Party (Türkistan Islam Partiyisi (TIP) تۈركىستان ئىسلام پارتىيىسى) responding to the news that 9 Uyghurs had been arrested in Pakistan and extradited [...]

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Rabiyä Qadir in Il Manifesto: “Independence is impossible”

Posted by Tewpiq on May 10, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

When I started studying Xinjiang, I knew I would need a broad array of linguistic resources. I never imagined I would read so much in Italian. Here is my translation, doubtless below par, of a [...]

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Xinjiang recipes series

Posted by Porfiriy on May 07, 2009 under Links

There’s another regularly updated Xinjiang blog out on the block and that’s This is Xinjiang. It’s mostly a record of the personal experiences of an academic teaching English at a university, and among the entertaining [...]

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9 Uyghurs extradited from Pakistan to China

Posted by Porfiriy on May 06, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

Last week, 9 Uyghurs captured in Waziristan were extradited to China, according to The Daily Mail, a Pakistani newspaper. Pakistan’s Interior Ministry claims that the 9 Uyghurs were previously involved in attacks against security forces [...]

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Adil Hakimjan granted asylum in Sweden

Posted by Sherin on May 02, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

The Christian Science Monitor reports that Sweden granted asylum yesterday to Adil Hakimjan, a Uighur and former Guantánamo Bay detainee. For background on his case, you can read the Monitor’s detailed profile here.

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