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December 16, 2019 | VQR Online
An Outsider’s Perspective
Monika Bulaj documents endangered rituals around the world.
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Tajikistan
February 27, 2018 | The New York Times
2,300 Miles to Work
An illustrator captures one of the world’s largest migrations in a New York Times Op-Doc.
August 11, 2017 | Foreign Policy
The Midnight Train to Moscow
Joseph Schottenfeld and George Butler follow one of the world's largest migrations: workers traveling by train from Tajikistan to Moscow.
July 11, 2016 | The Guardian
The Labor Train: Following the Migrant Workers of Tajikistan
Each week, thousands of men take a four-day rail journey from Tajikistan to Moscow in search of employment.
July 06, 2016 | NPR
Tajikistan: "Ant" Is a Movie About Ants—Or Is It?
A labor migrant from Tajikistan used his earnings in Russia to make a movie about ants.
April 19, 2016 | Roads & Kingdoms
Tajikistan: How Green Was My Valley
The president of Tajikistan once called Mirzasho Akobirov the country's best orchard keeper. Now, Akobirov would like others in Tajikistan to follow his example, rather than migrate to Russia.
July 27, 2013 | Pulitzer Center
In Khorog, Bracing For Another Attack
Last year Tajikistan government soldiers attacked the city of Khorog. Now residents are wondering: What next?
July 12, 2013 | Wilson Quarterly
Tajikistan's Dream
Poor, landlocked, and bedeviled by its neighbors, Tajikistan is staking its future on the one resource it has in abundance.
July 01, 2013 | The Atlantic
The Tajiks Who Fight Their Own Government
In a remote region of Tajikistan, the government used U.S.-trained special forces to aggressively pursue local warlords. The operation backfired — the special forces suffered a humiliating defeat.
June 10, 2013 | Pulitzer Center
Tajikistan's Folly? The Rogun Dam
Tajikistan's president is staking the future of his impoverished country on the world's tallest dam. But downstream Uzbekistan is threatening war.
June 08, 2013 | Pulitzer Center
Tajikistan: Water and Stability
Grantee Joshua Kucera talks about Tajikistan's pursuit of stability, which lately is taking one step forward, two steps back.
June 06, 2013 | Roads & Kingdoms
In the Middle of Somewhere
Murghab, in Tajikistan, was once a key strategic point for the Soviet Union, on the border with China and Afghanistan. But with the Russians retreating from Central Asia, who will move in?
The Labor Train
An intimate profile of labor migrants making their way to Russia by train and bracing for—sometimes looking forward to—work and life in Moscow.
Tajikistan: Drugs, Guns, Water
Tajikistan is chronically unstable and corrupt—and now bracing for more chaos from Afghanistan. Its president is staking his country's future on the biggest dam in the world.
Tajikistan: Winter of Discontent
The global financial crisis is now reverberating deep inside the Tajikistan's mountainous countryside, where tens of thousands of Tajik men who no longer have jobs in Russia have returned to their villages. In a country already straining to accommodate Tajik refugees from Afghanistan, the government's chronic mismanagement has amplified the power and food shortages that permeate the countryside.
August 15, 2017 | Newsletter
This Week: Living on the Margins
This week: Economic despair drives migration to Moscow, the Catholic Church's response to Duterte's killings, and PBS NewsHour revisits reporting on the US's nuclear arsenal.
June 11, 2013 | General news
This Week: Wind, Dust, and Clumps of Fur
Tom Hundley, senior editor, shares with this week's reporting — from Tajikistan's "Great Game" to Richard Mosse's infrared photography.
July 16, 2019 | All Grades
Toolkit for Your Next Discussion on Migration and Refugees
What stories do we see, and which ones do we miss? These stories go beyond the headlines to explore under-reported stories on migration and refugees in the United States and around the world.
March 06, 2018 | Middle School, High School, College
Geographies of the Mind: Mentally Mapping the Silk Road
Students explore an interactive story map of a journalist's journey on foot along the Silk Road to think critically about subjective perceptions of geography and to design their own creative maps.
September 26, 2016 | All Grades
Jewell: Interpreting Global Issues Through Picasso's "Guernica"
This is a painting lesson that combines Pablo Picasso's famous 1937 Guernica with current day issues presented from The Pulitzer Center.
June 17, 2016 | All Grades
Funston: Interpreting Global Issues Through Picasso's "Guernica"
This is a painting lesson that combines Pablo Picasso's famous 1937 "Guernica" with current day issues presented by the Pulitzer Center.
May 02, 2016 | All Grades, High School
Curriculum Connections for 10th Grade History Teachers in D.C. public schools
The following serves as a resource for DC public school teachers working with the District's tenth grade history standards, providing teachers with a list of Pulitzer Center projects in line with...
March 23, 2016 | Middle School, High School
Interpreting Global Issues Through Picasso's 'Guernica'
This is a painting lesson that combines Pablo Picasso's famous 1937 Guernica with current day issues presented by the Pulitzer Center.
October 12, 2015 | All Grades
Museum of Current Crises
This lesson plan outlines a project that allows students the opportunity to connect with a contemporary crisis somewhere in the world.