2008 Reports

Faculty News

Rafis Abazov (SIPA) received Kazakhstan's Journalism Academy Award (2007) for the best foreign publication on contemporary culture, literature and mass media in Central Asia and Kazakhstan. Abazov's book The Culture and Customs of the Central Asian Republics (Greenwood Press, 2007) presents his research on the cultural changes that have taken place during the twentieth century in this important region on the Great Silk Road and the impact of globalization and independence on the cultural development since 1991.