Silk Routes: Heritage, Trade, Practice

10/29/2016

The Silk Routes grant has come to a close. Please check out our fun virtual gallery, a collection of creative writing, images, and media. And please, use this space to connect with other writers! https://iwp.uiowa.edu/silkroutes/

10/04/2016

If you were to write creatively about an issue facing your community right now, what would it be? How would you write about? Poetry or prose, or something else entirely? (Please include where you live and your age, if you don't mind!)

10/01/2016

Featured on the Silk Routes virtual gallery, a history of cultural and commodity exchange through spices:
https://iwp.uiowa.edu/silkroutes/spice-boxes

Spice boxes provide a glimpse of the history of the Silk Routes through the trade of spices, impacting economies and distinctive cultures. You may see how individual spices are used today by visiting the Recipes section. Spice boxes are reproduced with permissions from Gary Nabhan’s Cumin, Camels, a...

06/02/2016

“Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

05/10/2016

(From Xinhua) Two motorcyclists, one from Hungary and one from China, set out from here on Saturday to travel the Silk Road, an ancient network of trade routes running East to West and connecting C…

04/11/2016

“We have to start from the village. If this library was in the city, we would have 100 visitors a day. But to me, the five visitors in the village are more important than the 100 in the city.”

A volunteer organization founded by a teenager has worked to reopen schools and create libraries in some of the Afghan provinces hardest hit by war.

04/04/2016

03/09/2016

http://openasia.org/en/?p=6394

So happy for all Simorgh Peace Prize awardees, especially our beloved Farkhonda who is on a mission of “Building a healthy society with educated women.”

This 4th round, women who are true protectors of peace in three countries located at the heart of Asia – Afghanistan, Iran and Tajikistan – were recipients of the awards; women who despise war-mongering and…

03/04/2016

Morocco's Argania trees are infested with nut-hungry goats

02/24/2016

Calling all young writers!!

Do you live in Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Kyrgyzstan, Maldives, Nepal, Afghanistan, or Pakistan?

Then you may be interested in the Between the Lines: The Writing Experience summer creative writing & cultural exchange program, held in Iowa City, Iowa, US. Learn more here:

http://iwp.uiowa.edu/programs/between-the-lines/how-to-apply

02/19/2016

From China to Turkey, musical tastemakers name the artists shaping their country's contemporary music scene.