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A video trailer for Hamid Ismailov’s fictional documentary “A Poet and Bin-Laden”, described as a reality novel, that begins on the eve of 9/11 and follows the transformation of an educated Uzbek poet into a militant fundamentalist aligned with al-Qaeda. Come read Ismailov’s poem “Lovers in Samarkand” in the September 2012: Writing from the Silk Road Issue of Words without Borders.

Poet Hamid Ismailov reads a piece in Uzbek. Come see his poem “Love in Samarkand” in the September 2012: Writing from the Silk Road Issue of Words without Borders.