A Parakeet in Uppsala
Exotic birds became popular as pets in Sweden in the eighteenth century. Sabira Ståhlberg and Ingvar Svanberg discuss a painting of a parakeet from around 1750.
Waterscapes in the desert: Loptuq reed use
In the Taklamakan desert a hundred years ago, the Loptuq used to fish and forage around the Lop Nor (Lop Lake). Ingvar Svanberg and Sabira Ståhlberg have written an article about their reed use and waterscape perceptions.
Frederick Hasselquist in the Ottoman Empire
Turcologica Upsaliensia. An Illustrated Collection of Essays tells the stories of travellers, researchers and others connected to Uppsala University in Sweden, to the Turkic world.
Horse meat in Mishär Tatar culinary traditions
The article Horsemeat in the culinary traditions of the Mishär Tatar diaspora in the eastern Baltic Sea region: cultural and historical aspects, written by Ingvar Svanberg, Sabira Ståhlberg and Renat Bekkin, has recently been published in the Journal of Ethnic Foods.
Easy books and endangered languages
Easy to Read books can be used to develop literacy in endangered languages.
Blog series about Easy to Read
A series of blog texts about Easy to Read by Sabira Stahlberg, Maria Viitasalo and the Bokpil team has been published on the Bokpil website.
Tatars in Studia Orientalia Electronica
Studia Orientalia Electronica Special Issue: Tatars in Finland in the Transnational Context of the Baltic Sea Region is now published.
Dr. Sabira Ståhlberg is guest editor for this issue.
First Easy Reads in Serbian
Sabira Stahlberg’s books have been translated for the first time into Serbian
Colourful Writing at Luckan
On three Mondays in October 2019 a multilingual writing workshop, Colourful Writing, was organised at Luckan in Helsingfors (Helsinki). The workshop leader was the author Sabira Ståhlberg.