Mark Reese @uzbekmodernist Twitter profile

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Mark Reese

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Friends, O’tkan Kunlar made it on the Calvert Journal! Many thanks to Paula and Katie @calvertjournal Review as follows:

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@MartyTa94849826 Mothers don’t let your sons grow up to be permed-up, fat shaming, all-hat-no-cow, cowboys

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A ‘friend’ escaping Russia contacted me about living in Uzbekistan: lower costs, weather, ease of living. When I suggested he learn Uzbek, he balked. He’s OK w/ learning German but not a Turkic language. The reasons— distinctly colonial. I wished him well on his long walk…

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Never eat plov before a lecture

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@dieworkwear I followed behind a man in a hallway today and could not unsee his tailoring choices … you’re fantastic.

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@SenTuberville Are you joking? Go hand out towels in the locker room.

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@WUTangKids In other words: let’s cut off America’s greatest economic generators from the bottom feeders and see who survives?

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Eid Muborak aziz do’stlarim!

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@LakotaMan1 I lived at the very end of Indian School road in Phoenix. Went thru High School never knowing the origin of the street name until I went to NAU and took coursework on Native American history and religion. Great experience and eye opening. Tragic how we gloss over the significance

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Vai vai vai. Too hot to swim in!

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This 🤯

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2 years

@sxrsar Major curve ball w/ friends from C Asia: I discretely left my credit card w/ the waiter and said that no matter what he is to charge my card, add 20% while you’re at it. When it came time to argue about the bill the waiter informed them I had already paid. Guerilla ta’rof. 🎤

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@AmericanaAesth The demographics of your ‘South’ are changing. That’s what this is really about. An inability to reimagine a changing world where we white southerners have to share the public aestetic w/ people we subjugated and profited off of. We lost for all the right reasons. Nostalgia is

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@RepTimBurchett Your child is home schooled and you made it clear there is nothing we can do about gun violence in schools. I like my leaders, secular and spiritual, to have skin in the game. Sit this one out.

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What? That wasn’t enough? Here’s the Plov!

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@MartyTa94849826 Yes… I know an USAF pilot w/ two stars that flies to China for a major delivery service… those are prestigious billets and require unusual amounts of training, restraint, and critical thinking… not to mention cool headed professionalism l. KR can dream…

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@Lyla_lilas This has been a problem for a long time… Russkies like to buzz ships etc. I marvel at our patience.

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28 years ago I prayed in front of this minaret w/ my host family during Hyit. I wish you all the best and more as you celebrate!

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Good morning Tashkent!

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Another tasty book purchase, just released

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@WUTangKids The dude who did the swim and maritime attack: my brother

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@dieworkwear Don’t feed the animals, derek

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I’d buy this building, gut it, restore it and live here.

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4 years

Gifts for Tashkent.

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@FitFounder International travel: never a backpack, never a watch, passport and some money held higher up on body, carry the business card of your hotel in case you’re lost, do your research and relax. Walking around nervous begs for you to be ‘helped’.

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@MarshaBlackburn Marsha, TN ranks 44th in health outcomes. 48th in education. Get that in order, then open your mouth.

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Two Tashkents

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@officejjsmart Disrespectful to the host as well…

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@ElieNYC When did NYC approve the ice cream pooping unicorns?!?

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2 years

Started my teaching career in Uzbekistan. As everywhere, teachers in Uzbekistan are low paid, over worked, and do a great deal w/ few resources. I taught them a little, they taught me a lot. For the teachers of #Uzbekistan — enjoy your day.

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In which Boo discovers the riches of Uzbekistan

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So what’s the deal? Repairing this for Elon Musk’s next space launch?

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Let me tell you. I feel sorry for ya’ll. The Uzbek community of Syracuse stuffed me full of excellent plov. What’s striking is that considering the depth of knowledge among Uzbeks in the US why aren’t they being more effectively utilized? I don’t care about ‘Great Game’ crap.

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@LakotaMan1 I ways understood part of this issue to be allowing First Nations control of Lake Mary, which provides H2O to Flagstaff. I wonder if that’s still at play?

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@MacWBishop @SarahBurris My friend owns a Crossfit box and stock in a hair gel company— I’m a SEAL.

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@MartyTa94849826 @thedailybeast She now has two pitbulls and a poodle, the future title of her memoir…

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4 years

Only a jerk has a chopan made with Khon Atlas... it’s very comfortable though. It’s about 17 years old and a seamstress from the traditional Uzbek dance group took orders( I forget the official name of the org but in the 90s they were located on Mustakalik Maidoni)...

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They did The Uzbek Language proud with that rendition. All bearded and older than our boy bands.

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@JolieToomajan @sxrsar Yes, it was a total a-hole move. My only defense is that they were insanely great hosts for 2 weeks and it had to hurt $… They would never take my money or let me split the bill. But I freely admit I broke all sacred laws, spoken and unspoken. The wives thought it was funny.

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@Haley47631891 @MartyTa94849826 Yes, I live in Nashville. Cntr of big trucks and angry white men sobby eyed about the War of Northern Aggression. All have AR 15 stickers and don’t read.

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If my heart survives this meal— I will see you all again. If not, I died happy.

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Newly formatted w/ 500 pages w/ all the same content! Many thanks to @andrewspoet for his expertise!

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Still don’t know how to do a selfie… off to Jadid conference

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@PaulaReidCBS @BarbieSnow6 @realDonaldTrump Devil went down to Georgia looking for an election to steal— fill in the rest of the lyrics. You’re welcome.

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On this date in 1938 the Uzbek reformers Qodiriy, Cholpan, and Fitrat were executed by Stalin’s minions.

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Looking for an outstanding comic book style illustrator in Tashkent for a project. Must have a competency in digital illustration. DM me w/ your portfolio.

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Potato and meat peroshki. This is how its done plebes. 10,000 soum and great Uzbek people.

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3 years

Remember these?

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Russia was never a colonizer? This guy would like a word…

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@BotakozKassymb1 I’ve met many many Central Asians that studied around the world, received adv degrees, hold executive positions, worked at top tier institutions who could easily fill any skills gap in their native country, w very few exceptions. The need for ‘Russian’ tech expertise is a myth.

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Inspired from Uzbekistan’s victory. My father was a HUGE fan of chess. He would approve. Time to encourage my son’s Uzbek / Russian half and teach him the game.

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@vox_magica Joseph Campbell

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Yesterday my mother in law met @president_uz . I absolutely love my mother in law Tatyana. An Ural Cossack who lived a hard life, she is the kindest person I’ve ever known. When my wife went back to work 3rd shift as a nurse after delivering our sons Tatyana taught me how to take

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A gentleman named Iskandar Madgaziev always posts the most elegant archival material on Facebook. He is not yet on Twitter but agreed to let me post these water colors of Qoqan from 1917 by one D. N. Igorov.

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Sanjakler mosque by Emre Arolat is 45 minutes outside of Istanbul. I’ve wanted to visit it for years and finally got the chance. A minimalistic design w/ exquisite materials it represents a departure from traditional Ottoman structures.

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@tressiemcphd When someone is alone w/ a dozen oysters, the message is clear.

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Thinking today about Uzbekistan’s decision to throw-in w/ the world community on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The last time Uzb made such a massively important decision was 9/11. I was enormously proud that Uzbekistan joined the fight by opening their doors to foreign partners—

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From Tashkent Retrospective. ‘Tramvai takalok-takalok kildi’ The Uzbek writer Qahhor wrote a short story making the sound of the tramvai into a verb— such was the influence of Tashkent’s tramvai on the popular imagination.

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Mark Reese

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2 years

Now that Tashkent’s mayor has been canned I want to make some suggestions. This may be triggering for those not really concerned w/ the lives of Tashkentlik so sorry/not sorry. I hope the new mayor reads this. I say all this as a person deeply invested in Tashkent. I dream of

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@claudiamconwayy Claudia, hold fast. 18 was when his prom date ditched him…

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Making our way thru Uzbekistan’s bounty…

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4 years

I'm raising money for Utkir Hashimov, Dunyoning Ishlari Translation. Click to Donate: via @gofundme

Utkir Hashimov, Dunyoning Ishlari Translation, organized by Mark Reese

One year after the publication of my translation of Abdullah Qodiriy's O't… Mark Reese needs your support for Utkir Hashimov, Dunyoning Ishlari Translation

www.gofundme.com

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@7Veritas4 If the lawyering thing doesn’t work out perhaps you’ll consider work as a writer… I see you working with Larry David.

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Another milestone: tonight I met w/ the Hashimov family!!! His son and grandsons! Utkir aka grew up near the Konkus canal in Dombrabad mahalla. This is the very yard he writes about from his youth... his father played the dutor and so did Utkir. They served glorious manti, his

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Visited 110 Maktab, focusing on STEM and IT. Also hosting a polling station.

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5 years

Aziz Dustlarim, I am thrilled to post the final cover design for my translation of O’tkan Kunlar —or Bygone Days. Artist Gulzor Sultanova created the beautiful cover art specifically for this project. Further social media forthcoming as is the release date.

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Ah, Tashkent. I missed you every day. At a cafe listening to Rus talk percentages. Uzbeks celebrating some victory. Speak Uzbek to the waiter and some guys come over to talk. I am one block from where I fell in love w my wife. Hotel Uzbekistan b/c its cheap and I understand why.

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Tashkentlik, chigatay goers, bohemians, and translators: sitting is the new smoking. Wake up early, pray, read hard books that burst open your flowering souls. My first day of rucking 20lbs from Hamid Olimjon to Navoi. Near this bench 19 yrs ago I fell in love w my wife.

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Ya’ll eat your tourist food. I’ll stick w Chigatay at night…

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@g_saltivka_250a On Lookout Mtn, Chatanooga TN. Its the place of landed gentry, blue blood, Civil War battle site. Old money. Surprised to see solidarity w UKR in such an isolated place. There never the less.

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@writesloud The Pixies- Planet of Sound/ Wave of Mutilation/ Henry Rollins Spoken Word/ Public Enemy anything/ Ramones I Wanna Live/ NWA 100 Miles and Running

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@RubenGallego Wouldn’t it be nice if for once they were just plinking w/ a .22?

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Interesting interview: some guy in Tashkebt said, O’tkan Kunlar is notna good novel. Mark, what do you think? Mark: everyone has an opinion but a 100 yrs later Qodiriy still has us talking about his work. I don’t like Proust 🤷‍♂️.

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Mom turns 80 today.

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To be blessed with a rich and varied life.

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Aziz dustlarim, I’m so excited to announce this that I’m up at 4 a.m.: in July I will travel to Uzbekistan to work as an advisor to the Agency for the Development of Presidential, Creative and Specialized Schools!!! The highlight of my May trip was my visit to the Ijod Maktab

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@nexta_tv Man’s literally a mouth breather

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@7Veritas4 Subway should name a sandwhich after you🤷‍♂️

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Being inducted into the Writers Union of Uzbekistan was something I did not expect today. I had a chance to meet a number of translators and writers, talk about their work, and discuss future collaboration. Many thanks to Sirojiddin aka, Director, Khurshid Dust Muhammad, writer!

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@rynkrynk @tengri_birds I was actively discouraged from learning Uzbek from Russian counterparts. I was told w a wink that I would not be able to work in Russia, Poland or Ukaine. They explained Uzbek was a simpleton’s language for sheep. Exact quote. I explained I was a punk rock cowboy from AZ…

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@Mark_J_Ryan @officejjsmart Don’t ever, never, ever mess w/ someone’s flag, never. If you do, be ready to brawl. That clown simpered off… what a coward.

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Off to Tashkent to be an election observer. The unhinged eyes are from a 3am wakeup. Looking forward to witness this process.

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4 years

After months of shorts, t-shirts, Birkenstock’s, I’m dolled up and off to receive the Order of Dustlik. Thanks dear friends for getting me there!

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Uzbekistan: every time I visit I understand a bit more. Every time I visit I understand how little I know. Many kind thanks to my hosts. @uzbekmfa many kind thanks to Davron, Gulrukhbanu, and Temur. 🙏 to those who arranged travel. 🙏 to the people I met. You’re all now old

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26 yrs ago this month I went to a place few knew about. It was the beginning of a great adventure. Thank you 🇺🇿 for the privilege of watching you grow. You now have 29 yrs behind you- your own history, on your own terms. All the best and more! @president_uz @JavlonVakhabov

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Honored to make ⁦ @UZAmbassador ⁩ #1 spot for books to read on Uzbekistan. Many thanks to Sophie and the Asia Society for their support. For someone to take their time to read your work is humbling— for someone to enjoy it deeply rewarding.

Uzbekistan

An ancient Silk Road outpost and Central Asia’s cradle of culture for more than two millennia

asiasociety.org

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@laurenboebert You haven’t read Animal Farm have you?

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Hope to be in Tashkent next week! Not exactly Spring... but I’ll take some good Plov and fresh Non anyway!

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Love is when you wife knits you a sweater for the winter!

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Professor Olomi has a number of threads on less ‘covered’ areas of Islam ☪️ that are truly fascinating. He demonstrates a genuine depth of knowledge and is a natural teacher. Worth the time.

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In Islamic belief God is said to have 99 Names. Muslims invoke these Names in devotional rites like supplications, prayers, and meditative practices. They are also part of esoteric beliefs and traditions A thread on the 99 Names of God or asma al husna

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It’s 1 April but it’s no joke I’ll be in Uzbekistan from 26 April to 8 May, inshallah. I am especially happy to be there during Ramazan. I’m doing a 6 week fitness challenge but I will find some hot non and nishala* for a treat. (Home made marshmallow is divine)

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Bahor kildi…

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There is only one knife to buy in Central Asia: knives from Chust. Over a decade of use and its still sharp a hell…

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Only the few will understand the excitement behind this purchase

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I’m back. Tasty little bast @rds

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Finally made it! Dushanbe teahouse in Boulder, CO. Say a duo… I ordered shashlik.

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Interesting Uzbek idiom from Utkir Hashimov’s Dunyoning Ishlari: Nima, uni shoxi bormi? Translated literally as: What, does he have horns on his head? The phrase reminds me of the tale Shoxi Iskandari. Iskandar, known to many as Alexander the Great, was often depicted w/ horns.

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