Author Archive: elaineqho
elaineqho
June 9, 2021
Family and relatives: The meeting with a Uzbek always quickly includes the acquaintance of his family. From an Uzbek perspective, having no family seems either unthinkable or a particular misfortune. The family is a socially highly respected value in Uzbek…
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elaineqho
June 9, 2021
Iranian cuisine – Persian cuisine The basis of the Iranian cuisine is the Persian cuisine, because Iran corresponds in parts to the area of ancient Persia. In addition to traditional Persian cuisine, there are more and more fast food restaurants…
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elaineqho
June 8, 2021
Education The education sector is in urgent need of reform and needs higher funding from the government. The new government under Mirziyoyev seems to have recognized this need for reform. According to a somewhat euphoric report by Deutschlandfunk, the country…
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elaineqho
June 8, 2021
“The cradle of civilization” – what does that mean? Iraq as a state structure has not existed that long, only since the 1920s. But on the territory of Iraq there was a very important region for cultural history: Mesopotamia. The…
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elaineqho
June 7, 2021
Culture In contrast to the nomadic areas in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan, the region of today’s Uzbekistan has been a core area of Islamic culture since the early Middle Ages. The highly developed, Persian-influenced urban culture was essential for this….
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elaineqho
June 7, 2021
First Gulf War Shortly after he came to power in 1979, there was an eight-year war with neighboring Iran, in which a million people were probably killed. Disputes with Iran were the trigger, but the background was Saddam Hussein’s plan…
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elaineqho
June 7, 2021
The State of Israel Although the partition plan failed, in the end David Ben Gurion proclaimed the independence of the State of Israel on May 14, 1948. Ben Gurion was also the first prime minister of a democratic state of…
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elaineqho
June 6, 2021
Economic policy Even after the death of the first president, Uzbekistan pursues a very tentative economic reform policy. Privatization has only partially taken place, and important large companies are still in state hands. The President can intervene in economic processes…
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elaineqho
June 6, 2021
From an agricultural state to an industrialized country Israel is a highly developed industrial state. While it was still a state shaped by agriculture when it was founded in 1948 – i.e. an agricultural state – the country soon developed…
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elaineqho
June 5, 2021
Economic data: You can find a good overview of basic economic data in the CIA World Fact Book and on the World Bank website. The German GTAI regularly publishes compact economic reports and analyzes on Uzbekistan. The German Chambers of…
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