Ayollar Bekati - Women’s bus-stop
A promising new Uzbek blog was set up some while ago. Ayollar Bekati (women’s bus-stop) discusses all things relevant to being a woman in Uzbekistan and attracts a growing readership and some vivid discussions.
Thanks to Shohruh, here are some translations of recent topics. They include:
- Domestic violence against children - a story of a kid from the UK
- Why to change your surname to your husband’s - one woman’s dilemma
- Smoking - why it is still popular?
- Getting married though matchmaking or by love - who choses which style?
- What is happiness? Is it in romantic love? - a confession of one woman
- Sexual harassment and what to do about it?
- “Am I a bad daughter?” (about a girl who wants to become an actress but her parents are against her studying, more generally it is about low value of high education these days in Uzbekistan)
- I don’t want to be the second wife! A young girl’s outcry and thought about a re- emerging tendency by some rich men to take more than one wife
- Emotional abuse by mothers-in-law (those two topics led to a wide discussion which attracted a lot of women and polarised opinions)
on August 24th, 2006 at 5:44 am
This blog is pretty well done; any information on the people behind it? I.e., are they being funded to produce the material there? If so, by whom?
on September 27th, 2006 at 6:24 pm
Hi James,
This blog has been produced by several dedicated Uzbek women who live outside of Uzbekistan. At the moment it is not funded by anyone.
Should you have any questions, please contact Shoyira at shoyiras@yahoo.co.uk or myself at malikabony@gmail.com
Thank you!
Malika
on November 25th, 2006 at 7:41 pm
privet . minya zafot khaled i am 35 years and i was married from russian girl i love russian and uzbak pepol and looking for woman want married i am egyption but iwas out side egypt for 12 years and right now i am working as a graphic designer at egypt
k.zaki