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Kim Bilet? tonight. Question: "In what year was the Feast of St. Janyl first marked by IradOne with a broadcast of the American cartoon?" Contestant: "1995." Correct. Host: "And what does Lisa say?...

Walnuts before the river. Tell that boy he has cousins in Arslanbob.

Bumping a year later. I went this time with my Christian neighbours from Arslanbob, as a guest. A priest blessed my neighbour's horse and then, seeing me, blessed my walnut bag too, to be safe. I h...

I read this to my grandfather. He said "good" and went back to the walnuts. From him, that is a parade.

I have been waiting eight months for this. Please write the exact words when you have them.

F. Two months ago the General told my village we are guests. A host who calls you a guest is already rubbing you out of his own map.

Thank you, everyone. He said it again in an interview this month, and the horsemeat thing too, as if eating horse is a "Muslim custom". In my village nobody eats horse. Across the line the steppe p...

Watched the Gendarmerie Academy graduation on IradOne tonight because a friend of my cousin was graduating. Then the General called Muslims in the Fergana Rim "guests who have forgotten whose house...

The checkpoint man has stopped asking about mosques. Now he asks if we sell walnuts. Progress.

Please, before it starts: we in the Rim are Muslims, not Taliban. My grandfather planted these walnut trees. Already today a man at the checkpoint asked my brother which mosque he goes to. He never...