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Genghis Khan, Kok-Par and Other Stories of the Great Steppe by Said Atabekov

“I wish to see kok-par players – “Steppe Wolves” from Central Asia on the world’s best catwalks. They are not the refined Europeans, just ordinary guys from a remote aul with crooked legs and scarred faces, bruised from the kok-par fights. Their clothes are…

  • January 6, 2025
  • contemporary art of Kazakhstan

About The Abai Center

The Abai Center in Washington, D.C., aims to support Kazakh culture and cultural studies and increase American people’ awareness and interest to the various aspects of the Kazakh culture. It will do so by organizing regular events, media reporting on culture-relevant events and supporting cultural studies of Kazakhstan. It will collaborate with the main Washingtonian institutions promoting culture such as the Smithsonian, to create new synergies in developing awareness of Kazakh culture in the U.S. capital.

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  • IERES
  • Central Asia Program
  • Auezov Institute
  • Al-Farabi University
  • CASA Harvard
  • United Alash Fund

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  • Address: 1957 E St Washington, DC 20052
    Elliott School of International Affairs
    IERES, GWU
  • Email: abaicenterusa@gmail.com

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