Uyghur Language Day matters, not just as celebration, but as defiance of the attempt to extinguish our civilization.

China’s new AI app DeepSeek is trying to erase our genocide from history, Uyghurs warn - FEATURE: As DeepSeek takes the world by storm, Alexander Butler speaks to Uyghurs worried about the app’s ‘dang ...

For Borderlands, out May 29 from Smithsonian Folkways, Wu Man joined forces with seven Uyghur musicians to improvise on their traditional music. Smithsonian Folkways Wu Man’s innovative ...

Pronouncing an official goal of assimilating Uyghurs to Chinese ways, the Party restricted, Sinicized, and eventually made illegal much Uyghur music, Uyghur history in the textbooks, even Uyghur ...

Around the World: Chinese artist fined for filming Uyghur music in Xinjiang, Aboriginal trailblazers nominated for Tasmanian Young Achiever Awards, Indigenous Fijian traditions ensure the ocean is ...

Yashar was convicted on 20 June 2024, for "promoting extremism" and "illegally possessing extremist materials" due to his music and possession of Uyghur-language books. He suffers from chronic ...

In this episode from 2021, our colleagues at the history podcast Throughline explore who the Uyghur people are, their land, their customs, their music and how they've become such a target in China ...

Guests use their phones to take pictures at a Uyghur wedding in Istanbul, Turkey where exiles have found refuge and a reconnection to their culture. This wedding featured traditional music as well ...

Nestled in a small shopping center next to Billy’s Deli and Cafe and a 7-Eleven, Bostan is a minimalist space, where traditional Uyghur music floats through the plain white dining room ...

Kawsar Yasin ’26, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a joint History and Anthropology concentrator in Eliot House and the Founder and President of Harvard Undergraduates for Uyghur Solidarity.