I, your devoted “cyber-akhbari,” remain hard at work going through the archives for the best material. So far the most challenging subject country has been Uzbekistan, about which the neweurasia community has produced a …

Tajikistan has presented me with an interesting conundrum. Whereas Uzbekistan has many hot-button topics that have a cross-regional reach, and Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan are, so to speak, all over the map, Tajikistan has many …

As I proceed in this project, more and more I feel an affinity with the Middle Eastern and Transoxianan historians of the late antiquity and medieval eras. Writing first in Arabic, later in Persian …

In the Facebook group, New Media in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, one poster wrote the following:
Journalism in post-soviet countries is more likely to be ‘authorless’.  It is definitely arguable, but here are my observations.
Couple …

This is a special message to neweurasia‘s photobloggers and photographically-inclined writers:
CONTEST ANNOUNCEMENT: CyberChaikhana will be printed in full color, inside and out. The plan is to combine the weblog text posts with …

Let’s get right to the heart of the matter: chapters. As I said before, CyberChaikhana will highlight the 50-60 best posts from our extended network of bloggers, in 8-10 themed chapters. Ben and …

Hello everybody,
My name is Christopher Schwartz. Some of you in the neweurasia community have probably heard of me; most of you, however, have not. I am a friend of Ben’s from his early days …

Hello everybody,
My name is Christopher Schwartz. I will be the editor for both the CyberChaikhana weblog and the book. I would like to kick start this weblog with one of my favorite quotes …