“Storytelling in wood is like writing poetry. You have to think like a poet. The pictures then come from inside you, directly from the world of thought.” Mirhalim Yahyoev and his brother work in their shared workshop in a simple, low-rise wooden house, across the road from the m

As one of the oldest cities in Central Asia, conquested by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC and renamed to Alexandria Eskhata, current-day Khujand (formerly known as Leninobod) functions as the northern capital of Tajikistan. Situated on the Syr Darya River at the mouth of th