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Culture

News on culture, Uyghur culture, and cultural activities in the diaspora

Books

‘The Broken Promise’ highlights warning signs of genocide

Anne Kader 3 years ago

With insights from genocide survivors and their children, members of Congress, legal scholars, and human rights activists, The Broken Promise, an independent feature-length documentary…

Uyghur Literature

Ceremony to honour Uyghur Poet and Professor Sultan Mahmud Kashigi held in Istanbul

Anne Kader 3 years ago

World Uyghur Writers Union, East Turkistan Foundation, World Uyghur Congress Foundation, and Humayana Turkic World Women’s Union held a ceremony in Istanbul to honor Poet and Professor Sultan Mahmud Kashigi.

Books Uyghur Genocide

Benedict Rogers on CCP persecution of HKgers, Uyghurs, Tibetans, and his new book: China Nexus

Anne Kader 3 years ago

The book, published by Optimum Publishing International tells the story of Benedict Roger’s fight against human rights abuses by China and its neighboring countries, Myanmar and North Korea. The book describes the Chinese human rights situation and what the free world should do about it.

Surveillance State: Inside China’s Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control
Books Facilities & prisons

Surveillance State: Inside China’s Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control

Uyghur Times 3 years ago

Where is the line between digital utopia and digital police state? Surveillance State tells the gripping, startling, and detailed story of how China’s Communist Party is building a new kind of political control: shaping the will of the people through the sophisticated―and often brutal―harnessing of data. It is a story […]

Atlantic: Uyghur Poems From a Chinese Prison
Uyghur Literature

Atlantic: Uyghur Poems From a Chinese Prison

Uyghur Times 3 years ago

The acclaimed poet Gulnisa Imin is serving a 17-year sentence because her work supposedly promotes “separatism.” She’s still writing. By Yasmeen Serhan To read the article, please visit the Atlantic

No Escape: Nury Turkel’s new book about Uyghur Genocide
Books Politicians & Activists

No Escape: Nury Turkel’s new book about Uyghur Genocide

Anne Kader 3 years ago

Nury Turkel, an Uyghur living in the US, has written a powerful memoir about the Chinese repression of the Uyghur people. Turkel is a co-founder and board chair of the Uyghur Human Rights Project, a commissioner for the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, and a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute.

Music

Uyghur singer Tursun Sheyih sentenced to ten years in prison

Anne Kader 3 years ago

The Chinese authorities have sentenced the renowned Uyghur singer and musician, Tursun Sheyih, to ten years in prison on July 30, 2021, Uyghur Times Uyghur edition reports. Uyghur scholar Abduwali Ayub confirmed the news to Uyghur Times on April 3.

Music

Case of Ablajan Awut Ayup, a missing Uyghur pop singer

Anne Kader 3 years ago

Ablajan Awut Ayup is an Uyghur pop singer who went missing in 2018. Born in 1984, he grew up with his five siblings in a peasant family in the village of Guma in the Hotan district.

Books Uyghur Literature

‘Daddy, Daddy, when are you coming home?’ – New Children’s book about repression of Uyghurs

Anne Kader 3 years ago

In January 2022, Leila Uyghur Foundation published a new book titled ‘Daddy, Daddy, when are you coming home?’ The book aims to teach children about the unique value of ethnicity and deter racial prejudice.

We Uyghurs Have No Say: An Imprisoned Writer Speaks
Books Politicians & Activists

We Uyghurs Have No Say: An Imprisoned Writer Speaks

Uyghur Times 3 years ago

–March 15, 2022 The words of China’s most famous political prisoner In Xinjiang, the large northwest region of China, the government has imprisoned more than a million Uyghurs in reeducation camps. One of the incarcerated—whose sentence, unlike most others, has no end date—is Ilham Tohti, an intellectual and economist, a […]

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Uyghur Homeland

  • China Appoints Kashgar University President as Director of “Xinjiang” Education Department
    by Uyghur Times Staff
    April 6, 2025
  • China Starts Using AI for Uyghur and Kazakh Film Translations
    by admin
    January 25, 2025
  • New Oil Discovery in Uyghurstan Raises Concerns Over Resource Control
    by admin
    January 18, 2025
  • China Launches Operations at Kashgar Kargilik Airport Amid Accusations of Cultural Assimilation
    by admin
    December 7, 2024
  • China Establishes “Xinjiang Hotan Xueyuan (Institute)” as Part of Its Propaganda Machine
    by admin
    November 11, 2024

Uyghur Studies

  • Uyghur Diaspora Celebrates 2025 Uyghur Doppa Cultural Festival With Pride and Resistance
    by Uyghur Times Staff
    May 9, 2025
  • George Washington University Offers Online Chaghatay Course for Summer 2025
    by Uyghur Times Staff
    May 1, 2025
  • China’s First Xinjiang Tomb Museum Attempts to Rewrite Uyghur History
    by tipilmas
    July 19, 2024
  • Ugur by Aziza:  A fusion of Uyghur culinary traditions with a touch of Saudi Arabia
    by Uyghur Times
    January 6, 2024
  • What is Uyghur forced labor ?
    by Uyghur Times
    December 26, 2023

World

  • EU Leaders Commit to Decrease Dependency on China
  • Statement against the Chinese government’s false propaganda regarding the UIGHUR Act passed by the U.S. House
  • Urgent: Save Abulikemu YUSUFU, a Uighur man facing deportation from Doha International Airport to China
  • Uighur people thank the 22 countries who stood up for Uighurs
  • International protests in solidarity with Uighurs on July 21st, 2019

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