S6E3: Through Uzbekistan: Histories of the Persianate World, with Fuchsia Hart

About this episode

This episode explores Uzbekistan's cultural heritage and its place in the Persianate world through a journey from Tashkent to Bukhara.

This month’s podcast episode takes us through Uzbekistan along the route that The Barakat Trust took on our trip to the country in November 2025. We begin in Tashkent before moving to Samarkand and finishing in Bukhara, exploring a number of architectural sites, crafts and traditions along the way. In our discussion we ask how the richness of Uzbekistan’s cultural heritage came to be considered on the periphery of the Persianate world. Our guest is Fuchsia Hart is The Sarikhani Curator for th...

People in this episode

Host: The Barakat Trust

Guest: Fuchsia Hart

Topics covered

• Uzbekistan
• Persianate world
• cultural heritage
• architecture
• crafts
• traditions

Keywords

• Uzbekistan
• Persianate world
• cultural heritage
• architecture
• crafts
• traditions

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Barakat Trust

Places: Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara

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