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Not sure if your local Uyghur bakery has the sweet cake you've been craving? Or if the Uyghur restaurant down the street has that wicked chicken dish whose name you wrote down while traveling in Kashgar? This week at The New Dominion's Survival Uyghur lesson, learn how to ask if a particular place has something available for purchase or consumption.

The second lesson of The New Dominion's feature series "Survival Uyghur" contains all the information you need to greet Uyghur friends and acquaintances in their native language.

In the third establishment of The New Dominion's "Survival Uyghur," we learn how to buy small things from Uyghur vendors. Whether you're in Kashgar or Shanghai, come learn some Uyghur at The New Dominion then go out and buy yourself some nan!

Writers at The New Dominion were able to view the video which started making rounds among Uyghur independence sites showing the execution of 3 Chinese citizens. While an actual Uyghur connection to the hostage event is practically nonexistent, there is still much significance in that the video was deliberately aimed at a Uyghur audience.

The New Dominion takes a look at the Uyghur debut in manga unearthed by Mutant Palm and makes some observations about this unique portrayal of Uyghurs in a non-Chinese media format.

Ordering Chinese food can be an art form. Knowing the regional specialties will ensure you have a good meal. In this blog, find out what to order at a Shanghainese restaurant!

So, you've come to Xinjiang, the spicy dapanji has gone straight to your brain, and you're ready to kick some folk into the nearest deep karez well. Well, if you're going to do that, at least know how to shout "THIS IS SPARTA!" in Uyghur!

Listening to Ismayil Tiliwaldi - who serves as the Chairman of Xinjiang's "autonomous" regional government - explain his conversion from Islam to communism makes an important point that everyone should keep in mind. That is, not all Uyghurs are separatists, nor are they all even Muslims.

Six months into her third pregnancy Arzigul Tursun, part of the Uyghur minority here in Xinjiang, was detained against her will for a forced abortion. International pressure has led to her release, but why did it have to come to that? What is the solution to family planning for minorities in places like Xinjiang?