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CIVILISATION EXPLAINED Two major exhibitions of Uzbek heritage have already toured Paris. The Center's conference at UNESCO headquarters this week is less a debut than a third chapter. It is tempting, watching a delegation prepare for this week's conference at UNESCO headquarters, to describe it as

MANUSCRIPTS AND HERITAGE In 1403, Charles VI accepted Amir Timur's ‘useful proposals’ in a letter that is still held in Paris. This week, that 600-year-old correspondence is doing some of the diplomatic work for the Center's own trip there. In the summer of 1402,

CIVILISATION EXPLAINED Fourteen stone arches, a wall of screens, and more than a hundred historical figures who answer when a visitor touches their name. Most of the Center's exhibition halls ask a visitor to look. The Hall of Honour asks them to choose. Fourteen carved arches trace the

On 7 October, the Center's account of Uzbekistan's place in Islamic civilisation goes in front of an audience that has heard a great many countries make a great many claims about their own history. At UNESCO Headquarters in Paris the event organisers will install an exhibition

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has used the phrase for years. Visitors to the Centre have started repeating it back to him. Here's what it actually means.

Finland's Special Envoy for Central Asia, Maria Ögren, and Portugal's Ambassador to Uzbekistan, Sara Ferro Ribeiro, walked through the Islamic Civilization Center within days of each other. Both left impressed. Neither left with the same story. What Ögren saw: a mirror Ögren's route through

Walk to the architectural centre of the Islamic Civilization Center and you arrive at a room with one job: to hold a single book. The Qur'an Hall is both the conceptual and the physical heart of the museum, and the manuscript it was designed around is one of

The Centre's first international forum closed in Termez last month. The followup letters are still arriving By the Dispatch team For five days in July, the conversation about Islamic civilization moved between three cities. The First International Islamic Civilization Forum opened in Tashkent, continued in Samarkand, and closed