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Afghanistan and Central Asia

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, February 2023

The Soviet Middle East: A Model for Development? (Nove and Newth)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, August 2022

The Bloody White Baron: The Extraordinary Story of the Russian Nobleman Who Became the Last Khan of Mongolia (Palmer)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, March 2022

Biruni (Malagaris)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, February 2022

Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present (Khalid)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, July 2020

Turkestan Down to the Mongol Invasion (Barthold / Bartol'd)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, January 2020

Iran: A Modern History (Amanat)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, May 2018

Shahnameh: The Epic of the Persian Kings (Ferdowsi, trans. Sadri)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, March 2018

The Bloodprint (Khan)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, December 2017

Chakra (Bulliet)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, December 2016

Hunting with Eagles: In the Realm of the Mongolian Kazakhs (Mohan)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, December 2015

Eastern Approaches (Maclean)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, September 2015

Wild Pigeon (Drake)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, August 2015

Mirror of the Orient (Michaud and Michaud)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, April 2015

Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century (Caryl)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, April 2014

Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane (Starr)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, August 2013

Travelling through the Eye of History (Schwartz)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, December 2012

Games Without Rules: The Often-Interrupted History of Afghanistan (Ansary)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, August 2012

Cambridge History of India, vol. III: Turks and Afghans (Haig [ed].)

The Renegades (Young)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, April 2012

Life along the Silk Road (Whitfield)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, March 2012

Range of Ghosts (Bear)

My Name Is Red (Pamuk)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, August 2010

Geoffroy-Schneiter on Gandharan art

War Against the Bookmarks

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, July 2010

Maenchen-Helfen on the Huns

Tarn on the Greco-Bactrians

The Old Country, Back in the Day

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, May 2010

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, January 2010

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, December 2009

Assorted Link Roundup, May 2008

The King Is Dead

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, January 2007 A Negro Looks at Soviet Central Asia (Hughes)

A. R. Luria: The Neuropsychology of Praxis

Friday Abominable Snowman Molecular Phylogenetics Blogging

A Triumph of Socialist Realism

Friday Cat Blogging (Roof the the World Issue of Science Geek Edition)

"The Case for Building an Afghan Auxiliary Military Force"

Let Me Be Among the First to Welcome Our New Orbital Cybernetic Zombie Overlords!

Mongolian Cultural Expression in the Present

The Bactrian Gold

Burani Kadu, with Qima

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, October 2004

Episodes in the Mathematics of Medieval Islam (Berggren)

On the History of Inner Asia, as Reflected in Its Intestinal Flora

Nauroz mubarak!; and, valleys green in memory

News from Tartary III

Hidden Connections; or, Flying Saucers, Conspiracies and Prehistoric Tibet

The Afghan National Character Asserts Itself

A Modest Proposal, or Maximizing Birds per Stone

There Is Much Ruin in a Nation; or, Novus Ordo Seclorum

From Harlem to Samarkand

News from Tartary II

News from Tartary

Quince Stew (Qorma-e-behi)

The Leaden Road to Samarkand

Temujin Displays His Adaptation

Civilization Fell While I Wasn't Looking

Great Moments in Afghan Buddhism