Opinion - Brothers to betrayers: Turkey’s journalists echo China’s propaganda on Uyghurs

This not just another propaganda success for Beijing. It is a betrayal, particularly because Turkey is the country most ...
Iowa Public Radio

A Uyghur linguist's journey from detainee to activist in exile

All Abduweli Ayup wanted to do was start a school. He's a Uyghur linguist who specializes in Turkic languages. After years of studying abroad, he returned to his native China in 2011 and started ...
CNN

Hackers target Australian festival showing Uyghur film

Hackers repeatedly attacked the Web site of Australia's largest film festival Saturday, asking organizers to apologize to the Chinese people for planning to screen a documentary on an exiled Uyghur ...
The GW Hatchet

International affairs, business programs face over $1 million federal funding loss

The Department of Education revoked three grants for GW programs in September that focused on Middle East studies, East Asian ...
The Economist

For the first time, a Uyghur novel is translated into English

The Backstreets: A Novel from Xinjiang. By Perhat Tursun. Translated by Darren Byler and Anonymous. Columbia University Press; 168 pages; $80.00 and £62.00 Perhat tursun was a precocious teenager. He ...
The Atlantic

Uyghur Poems From a Chinese Prison

For many Uyghurs, poetry is less a niche literary exercise than a vital part of everyday life. Uyghur culture has become a target of the Chinese government’s crackdown in the northwestern province of ...