By Orqun, May 3, 2025 Uyghur poet Tahir Hamut Izgil received Sweden’s poetry award, the Cikada Prize, at the Swedish Embassy in Washington D.C. on April 24. Tahir Hamut Izgil posted on social media: “Today I received Sweden’s poetry award, the Cikada Prize, at the Swedish Embassy in Washington D.C. […]
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WUC Chair Rushan Abbas to Release Memoir Chronicling Uyghur Human Rights Struggle By Uyghur Times StaffMay 2, 2025 – Washington, DC Prominent Uyghur human rights advocate Rushan Abbas is set to release her memoir, Unbroken: One Uyghur’s Fight for Freedom, on June 10, 2025, through Optimum Publishing International. The book, […]
By Uyghur Times Staff | January 25, 2025 China’s use of artificial intelligence (AI) to monitor and control Uyghurs is well-documented. Now, the Chinese government is channeling the same technology to automate the translation of films and television content into Uyghur and Kazakh languages. This move is framed as an […]
With wide-ranging support from within the Library and from campus partners, Princeton University Library (PUL) has acquired the Aziz Isa Elkun collection of Uyghur literature, culture, language, and history, thereby preserving an important part of the Uyghur people’s written cultural heritage for future generations. The acquisition makes PUL home to […]
By Uyghur Times Staff August 17, 2024, Urumqi – Meryem Nasir, a renowned Uyghur artist and a key figure in the development of modern Uyghur dance, passed away on August 16, 2024, at the age of 84 in Urumqi due to illness. Her death is being widely mourned by Uyghurs, […]
At the age of 5, she came to Turkey from East Turkestan with her family.[1] She received ballet training at her mother Gülzade Tanrıdağlı’s ballet and dance school in Istanbul.[2] After graduating from elementary school, she entered the Istanbul State Conservatory affiliated with Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. She studied […]
Uyghur Academy, an Istanbul-based educational group, announced on May 30 that it has published the five-part “Uyghur Language and Literature Textbook Series” designed for Uyghur youth in Istanbul. The group stated, “These textbooks are the first systematically produced, complete five-year textbook materials for primary school students, prepared with the efforts […]
Tursun Uyghur, April 22, 2024 Washington—A documentary film telling the story of Kasim Kashgar, a former Uyghur educator and entrepreneur who fled Chinese persecution to the United States, produced by Voice of America, was awarded the prestigious 2024 New York Festivals in the category of documentary/human rights. Kasim Abdurehim Kashgar […]
A live-streamed event titled “Countering the Chinese Communist Party’s Genocide on the Uyghurs” was held in Washington DC on March 14th, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) announces on its website.
“Waiting for the End” is a film written and directed by Memetjan Semet, a Uyghur, and it reflects the current situation of Uyghurs. The film will be premiered in Washington on February 10, Uyghur Times Uyghur Edition repor