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...high schooler. (As a group, high-school girls in the country spend around $2.5 billion annually.) Most of that discretionary yen goes to the brand name with the newest, hottest, coolest style. And for those brands that capture that essence of kawaii, the potential markets stretch from Tokyo to Tashkent. Call it the Greater East Asia Ko-Kawaii Sphere. "Japan is the only country in Asia right now that is a genuine fashion force," explains Joanne Ooi, CEO of e-tailer StyleTrek.com. "Telling a teen customer that an item is popular in Japan is a huge selling point...
Reach all three cities by road or fly from the capital Tashkent. (For Khiva, travel first to nearby Urgench). All tourists need a visa, which (except for Americans) requires a letter of invitation from an Uzbek travel agency. Try to avoid the blistering summers and piercing winters. But whatever the season, the spirits of the Silk Road will await...
Officials in the capital of Tashkent turned a blind eye to the growing power of the Islamic revivalists in Namangan, until they openly challenged the authority of President Islam Karimov. Last month police sealed off the city and whisked at least 80 activists away to prisons outside the region, deeply offending city residents. An enraged party member in Moscow warned, "A revolution is imminent. We have learned something from the Algerian experience...
...flight from Cairo taxied to a spot between two El Al jumbo jets that were already disgorging onto the tarmac a profusion of joyous, exhausted humanity. Standing in line for customs, I was engulfed by a sibilant jabber that I recognized from other journeys -- to Moscow, Minsk, Kiev, Tbilisi, Tashkent, Baku, Irkutsk...
...languages. The Cyrillic alphabet was forced on the Central Asian republics by Stalin in 1939 to cut Muslims off from their rich cultural heritage and to exacerbate relatively minor linguistic differences among the four main Turkic groups of the area. Today, privately run Arabic-language schools are flourishing in Tashkent and other major cities, while Tashkent's five Arabic-language middle schools are crammed to capacity. At the Tashkent No. 22 Middle School, 2,200 students from Grades 2 through 11 -- the highest -- attend Arabic-language classes taught by 24 ( full-time instructors. Says teacher Asia Ismarava...