Almaty-based journalist reporting on Central Asia, author of Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan (2019) and Silk Mirage: Through the Looking Glass in Uzbekistan (out in November 2025)
Joanna Lillis
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Join us at The Lake District Book Festival a week today! @politicaltours
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Bukharan Jews have been living here for a couple of thousand years - but the community has dwindled so much that some fear it might disappear from the Silk Road city that gave the group its name. Check out my long read from Bukhara in my latest Substack post. open.substack.com/pub/joannali...
Bukharan Jews have been living here for a couple of thousand years - but the community has dwindled so much that some fear it might disappear from the Silk Road city that gave the group its name. Check out my long read from Bukhara in my latest Substack post. open.substack.com/pub/joannali...
Join us at the Lake District Book festival three weeks today
The clock is ticking - the inaugural Lake District book festival starts next week! Tickets here to my event on Silk Mirage and #Uzbekistan with Nicholas Wood of @politicaltours + many more great events at this fantastic venue, don’t miss it! events.lakedistrictbookfestival.co.uk/events/thela...
Don't miss the literary event of the summer - the Lake District Book Festival starts a week today! Amazing writers, amazing venue, amazing conversations! I'll be talking to Nicholas Wood about my book Silk Mirage and #Uzbekistan.
Tickets here events.lakedistrictbookfestival.co.uk/events/thela...
Join us at the Lake District Book Festival where I'll be in conversation with Nicholas Wood of Political Tours about my book Silk Mirage and all things #Uzbekistan + more events with writers like Lyse Doucet + Sebastian Faulks. Tickets here. events.lakedistrictbookfestival.co.uk/events/thela...
Countdown to the Lake District Book Festival, with brilliant writers from Rory Stewart + Lyse Doucet to Zeinab Badawi + Candice Carty Williams. I'll be in conversation w Nicholas Wood about Silk Mirage + #Uzbekistan. Tickets here events.lakedistrictbookfestival.co.uk/events/thela...
The Lake District Book Festival starts on Friday! Join my event on Silk Mirage + #Uzbekistan w Nicholas Wood on Saturday, + much more over what is going to be a fantastic weekend! Tickets here. Photo shows the incredible solar furnace at Parkent
events.lakedistrictbookfestival.co.uk
Joanna Lillis
Joanna Lillis
Joanna Lillis
Joanna Lillis
Joanna Lillis
Bukharan Jews have been living here for a couple of thousand years - but the community has dwindled so much that some fear it might disappear from the Silk Road city that gave the group its name.
Bukharan Jews have been living here for a couple of thousand years - but the community has dwindled so much that some fear it might disappear from the Silk Road city that gave the group its name.
