Hamid Ismailov
All posts on "World Service Writer in Residence" by Hamid Ismailov
- How is creative writing possible? - 14:52 UK time, Friday, 1 February 2013
- Romanticised criminals - 14:28 UK time, Friday, 25 January 2013
- A Man was Going Down the Road - 11:27 UK time, Friday, 18 January 2013
- A national treasure in exile - 11:49 UK time, Friday, 11 January 2013
- Facebook or chaykhana... - 15:51 UK time, Friday, 4 January 2013
- Master and Margarita - 12:01 UK time, Friday, 21 December 2012
- ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ World Service Thanksgiving service - 12:51 UK time, Monday, 17 December 2012
- Mughal India - 18:00 UK time, Monday, 10 December 2012
- Open Central Asia Literary Festival - 14:22 UK time, Friday, 30 November 2012
- Communist-speak - 14:23 UK time, Thursday, 22 November 2012
- The Party Congress as a ritual - 12:21 UK time, Thursday, 15 November 2012
- What are we afraid of? - 14:50 UK time, Friday, 9 November 2012
- Crossing borders - 16:08 UK time, Wednesday, 31 October 2012
- Picassos found in Tashkent - 11:26 UK time, Friday, 26 October 2012
- Should poetry be forced onto the curriculum? - 16:44 UK time, Wednesday, 17 October 2012
- Poetry and the Media - 15:26 UK time, Tuesday, 9 October 2012
- Does a short story stand for a micro-novel? - 13:53 UK time, Friday, 5 October 2012
- Urunboy Usmonov in London - 14:47 UK time, Tuesday, 25 September 2012
- Morals or no morals - 17:04 UK time, Wednesday, 19 September 2012
- Of Silk and Sand - 16:08 UK time, Tuesday, 11 September 2012
- The Paralympics as a Story of the Modern World - 17:51 UK time, Tuesday, 4 September 2012
- Once Upon a Deadline - 16:12 UK time, Thursday, 30 August 2012
- Or vs And: Julian Assange, Pussy Riot and Modern Dichotomy - 17:01 UK time, Wednesday, 22 August 2012
- Not the triumph but the struggle - 17:21 UK time, Friday, 17 August 2012
- The Olympic Closing Ceremony - 12:06 UK time, Tuesday, 14 August 2012
- Generation G or Generation P? - 16:00 UK time, Thursday, 2 August 2012
- Pride versus Prejudice - 12:30 UK time, Saturday, 28 July 2012
- Tales from Bush House - 15:01 UK time, Thursday, 19 July 2012
- Dialogue vs Monologue - 16:02 UK time, Friday, 13 July 2012
- Is poetry a type of social activism? - 10:00 UK time, Friday, 6 July 2012
- Poems from Heaven - 15:39 UK time, Thursday, 28 June 2012
- London Eye looks closely at your flight - 16:36 UK time, Friday, 22 June 2012
- On the move - 14:33 UK time, Friday, 15 June 2012
- Is history a nightmare? - 15:39 UK time, Thursday, 7 June 2012
- Do you want recognition for your poetry by world poets? - 16:16 UK time, Wednesday, 30 May 2012
- Public cuts extended to... - 15:40 UK time, Thursday, 24 May 2012
- Do we all live double-lives? - 14:34 UK time, Friday, 18 May 2012
- Austerity as it is seen from the other end - 15:52 UK time, Friday, 11 May 2012
- Where does Central Asia move to? - 22:06 UK time, Thursday, 3 May 2012
- Genghis Khan in London - 14:43 UK time, Thursday, 26 April 2012
- How difficult is it to change? - 10:40 UK time, Friday, 20 April 2012
- The book of Bush tales is nearly ready - 17:02 UK time, Wednesday, 11 April 2012
- Poetry against dictatorship - 14:49 UK time, Wednesday, 4 April 2012
- Poetry and Dictatorship - 14:48 UK time, Thursday, 29 March 2012
- Panem et Circenses - 13:58 UK time, Wednesday, 21 March 2012
- Prose and Poetry: a horse and a doe - 16:09 UK time, Wednesday, 14 March 2012
- Putin, Villas-Boas and others - 10:55 UK time, Wednesday, 7 March 2012
- Celebration and Farewell to Bush House - 19:58 UK time, Sunday, 26 February 2012
- Meditation on Mona Lisa - 09:10 UK time, Saturday, 18 February 2012
- The games you play make you who you are - 13:23 UK time, Friday, 10 February 2012
- My Dickens - 17:04 UK time, Thursday, 2 February 2012
- Death of a friend and colleague - 14:38 UK time, Wednesday, 25 January 2012
- Identity or Belonging? - 14:53 UK time, Thursday, 19 January 2012
- Poetry and spirituality - 10:36 UK time, Thursday, 12 January 2012
- Memories of Bush House - 09:51 UK time, Monday, 9 January 2012
- Time to check up our New Year resolutions - 15:32 UK time, Thursday, 29 December 2011
- More non-Olympic games from Central Asia - 14:20 UK time, Thursday, 22 December 2011
- Kazakhstan between the future and the past - 15:13 UK time, Friday, 16 December 2011
- More non-Olympic games - 12:50 UK time, Friday, 9 December 2011
- From the Centre of Central Asia - 09:01 UK time, Thursday, 1 December 2011
- The games which we played or non-Olympic project - 14:52 UK time, Thursday, 24 November 2011
- Bush House writers in Wasafiri Literary Magazine - 17:20 UK time, Thursday, 17 November 2011
- Did true Soviet literature exist? - 16:05 UK time, Thursday, 10 November 2011
- More Bush Anecdotes - 15:38 UK time, Wednesday, 2 November 2011
- Billions of problems of billions people - 15:54 UK time, Thursday, 27 October 2011
- Blackout of Black... - 12:32 UK time, Thursday, 20 October 2011
- A Noble Nobel Prize - 11:54 UK time, Wednesday, 12 October 2011
- Tevez... Tevez... - 14:23 UK time, Thursday, 6 October 2011
- A Farewell to Arms - 15:17 UK time, Thursday, 29 September 2011
- Media and Academia: do they speak a common language? - 17:04 UK time, Thursday, 22 September 2011
- Anecdotes of Bush House - 15:10 UK time, Friday, 16 September 2011
- A return Hodjent, Tajikistan for Urunboy Usmonov's trial - 09:39 UK time, Wednesday, 7 September 2011
- Summer of Englishness: Loyalty to Royalty - 13:27 UK time, Thursday, 1 September 2011
- Summer of Englishness: Cricket Test Match - 15:54 UK time, Thursday, 25 August 2011
- Summer of Englishness: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Proms - 16:27 UK time, Thursday, 18 August 2011
- England Riots: what can literature teach us? - 16:26 UK time, Friday, 12 August 2011
- Summer of Englishness: Wimbledon - 16:10 UK time, Thursday, 4 August 2011
- Summer of Englishness: Royal Ascot - 12:05 UK time, Friday, 29 July 2011
- Summer of Englishness - 21:15 UK time, Thursday, 21 July 2011
- Urunboy Usmonov rejoins his family - 07:33 UK time, Friday, 15 July 2011
- Urunboy Usmonov: where does the literature end? - 13:44 UK time, Thursday, 7 July 2011
- Trip to Tajikistan to see Urunboy Usmonov in prison - 22:02 UK time, Friday, 1 July 2011
- Pendle Chronicles: 50 days after the marriage - 06:05 UK time, Friday, 24 June 2011
- What does it take to be a journalist in Central Asia? - 14:58 UK time, Thursday, 16 June 2011
- A Sad Anniversary - 07:05 UK time, Friday, 10 June 2011
- 31 May - Last Evening of Spring - 11:21 UK time, Friday, 3 June 2011
- New generation of Bush House writers - 17:12 UK time, Thursday, 26 May 2011
- Faces of Bush House: Seva Novgorodsev - 09:58 UK time, Monday, 23 May 2011
- Project: Radio Drama - 20:48 UK time, Thursday, 12 May 2011
- Literature and Journalism: Why does man write fiction? - 15:01 UK time, Thursday, 5 May 2011
- An Ode to Marriage - 11:41 UK time, Thursday, 28 April 2011
- Disuniting football in the United Kingdom - 17:50 UK time, Thursday, 21 April 2011
- Pendle Chronicles: One day through the eyes of a ... - 11:39 UK time, Thursday, 14 April 2011
- Pendle Chronicles: Banns of wedding are read - 10:52 UK time, Thursday, 14 April 2011
- Poems which you carry by heart - 10:35 UK time, Wednesday, 6 April 2011
- How My Country Speaks - 20:29 UK time, Saturday, 26 March 2011
- Fading voices of Bush House - 15:50 UK time, Friday, 18 March 2011
- 50 Days to Go - 15:27 UK time, Thursday, 10 March 2011
- The spark which kindled a flame - 15:00 UK time, Wednesday, 2 March 2011
- A lunch with Nabokov - 16:01 UK time, Thursday, 24 February 2011
- Tribute to friends - 21:00 UK time, Thursday, 17 February 2011
- Your encounter with otherness - 12:31 UK time, Monday, 14 February 2011
- Revolutions and social media - 13:47 UK time, Friday, 4 February 2011
- Literature and Journalism Part Two - 15:04 UK time, Thursday, 27 January 2011
- Pendle Chronicles: 100 days to the wedding - 21:13 UK time, Tuesday, 18 January 2011
- Journalism and Literature - 13:54 UK time, Friday, 14 January 2011
- What are your New Year resolutions? - 15:01 UK time, Thursday, 6 January 2011
- Nulla dies sine linea - 11:51 UK time, Monday, 20 December 2010
- Pendle Chronicles: In search of a cotton mill - 14:24 UK time, Monday, 13 December 2010
- Pendle Chronicles: Be positive! - 14:01 UK time, Tuesday, 7 December 2010
- The Forum seen from the cubicle - 12:00 UK time, Friday, 3 December 2010
- Nightly Express: deadline extended - 10:51 UK time, Monday, 29 November 2010
- Pendle Chronicles: Get real! - 13:34 UK time, Thursday, 25 November 2010
- Project: Nightly Express - 14:03 UK time, Friday, 19 November 2010
- Farewell, Beaumont - 15:52 UK time, Thursday, 11 November 2010
- Is a language for grammar or communication? - 16:15 UK time, Thursday, 4 November 2010
- How much does truth cost? - 12:34 UK time, Thursday, 28 October 2010
- Miners, sinners and the Saviour - 20:59 UK time, Wednesday, 20 October 2010
- Are we getting old or obsolete? - 21:48 UK time, Thursday, 7 October 2010
- E kabo dara ju e kule lo - 10:23 UK time, Friday, 1 October 2010
- Sir Vidia of World Service - 14:02 UK time, Tuesday, 28 September 2010
- Prompted by ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Proms - 06:04 UK time, Friday, 10 September 2010
- The final push - 12:36 UK time, Friday, 3 September 2010
- Month of Revelation - 21:55 UK time, Thursday, 26 August 2010
- "E kabo dara ju e kule lo" - 14:20 UK time, Thursday, 19 August 2010
- Asylum-seeking trees - 12:59 UK time, Monday, 16 August 2010
- How to break the break - 05:51 UK time, Friday, 23 July 2010
- A marked man - 10:56 UK time, Friday, 16 July 2010
- Knights of cloak and dagger - 13:20 UK time, Friday, 9 July 2010
- Not again... - 14:02 UK time, Friday, 2 July 2010
- Dealing with difference - 13:30 UK time, Tuesday, 29 June 2010
- Kyrgyz and Uzbek Obid-kori - 08:49 UK time, Friday, 25 June 2010
- A sickening pain - 08:52 UK time, Friday, 18 June 2010
- An odd email from Nigeria - 13:12 UK time, Friday, 11 June 2010
- A token of Nigeria - 21:52 UK time, Thursday, 10 June 2010
- Traditions and Modernity - 21:40 UK time, Thursday, 10 June 2010
- A street-poet and a football star - 21:24 UK time, Tuesday, 8 June 2010
- Job 600 - 12:44 UK time, Tuesday, 8 June 2010
- Africa connected - 14:03 UK time, Monday, 7 June 2010
- Stories behind the pictures - 21:17 UK time, Thursday, 3 June 2010
- In search of new metaphors - 21:59 UK time, Wednesday, 2 June 2010
- Interview with George Orwell - 14:46 UK time, Friday, 28 May 2010
- Legends of Bush House - 14:54 UK time, Thursday, 20 May 2010
- Work and Dreams - 12:21 UK time, Sunday, 9 May 2010
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Writer in residence Hamid Ismailov is an Uzbek novelist and poet. His work is banned in Uzbekistan and under threat of arrest he moved to London and joined ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ World Service as a journalist. He is now head of the Central Asian service.