Gulnar Nadirova

Gulnar Nadirova

Senior Research fellow

Nadirova Gulnar Ermuratovna graduated from the Oriental Faculty of Leningrad State University, in 1990 she defended her thesis on the Algerian literature at the Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies, in 2006 doctoral thesis - on modern Tunisian literature at the Tashkent Institute of Oriental Studies, Professor.

Staff's Publications


May 13, 2025

Education in Kazakhstan: Challenges, Reforms and the Road to Equity

The role of school education in the life of a country and society cannot be overstated. It is instrumental in developing the skills, cultural values, and ideological foundations of both the country and its citizens. Consequently, the development of the education system should be among the government’s top priorities, on […]
March 10, 2025

Shift in Global Tourism Towards Central Asia

There are a multitude of different options and examples in the world when it comes to economic specialization. Some countries, including many post-Soviet ones, such as Kazakhstan, Russia, Azerbaijan, and Turkmenistan based their economies on hydrocarbons, exporting oil, gas, and associated products. Others specialize in finance, heavy or light manufacturing, […]
February 4, 2025

Digital Security Security and Threats in Kazakhstan

Digital fraud has been a persistent issue for decades, with its origins tracing back to the early 1970s when email phishing first emerged, even though the term itself was not coined, and the practice did not gain widespread prevalence until the mid-1990s. Since then, the online world has seen scammers […]
January 19, 2025

The Transformative Impact of AI on Education: Challenges and Opportunities

The role of education in any country’s existence is crucial. The quality of the labor force, the complexity of the economy, and the crime level are all factors that depend on the quality of education in any given country. Yet, building a comprehensive, relevant, and high-quality educational system is an […]
December 19, 2024

Internationalization of Education: Double Risks

The role of education in the history of humankind cannot be overstated. Arguably, education allowed humans to continuously build a knowledge base about the world and use it to advance our understanding of the environment and each other, fueling the progress of sciences. For instance, the invention of the printing […]
October 20, 2024

Competitiveness Rating of the Republic Of Kazakhstan in Comparison with the Countries of the Region

What constitutes any country’s most valuable resource? What determines a country’s position on the world stage, and defines its economy, societal structure, and political system? In the past, the answer to these questions might have been simple. A country’s geography dictated its destiny during the ancient period of human history. […]
July 19, 2024

Technical and Vocational Education in Central Asian Countries

In the modern world, a country’s ability to develop economically, socially, culturally, and technologically directly depends on the availability and qualifications of human resources. The labor force is a part of the social population that has economic activity. The efficiency of the labor force is ensured by technical and vocational […]
May 21, 2024

Social Progress in the Central Asian Region: 2024 Update

Saying that the past 3 years since the previous assessment of the Central Asian region through the prism of the Social Progress Index have been turbulent would be an enormous understatement. Since 2021 the world as a whole and the Central Asian region in particular have gone through immensely significant […]
March 9, 2024

The Concept of the National Vision and its Priorities in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan

A National Vision is a concept that determines the mid-term and long-term development goals of a country and provides the basis for the development of national strategies and implementation plans. The national political leadership usually shapes the concept of the National Vision. The strength and credibility of such a vision […]
January 9, 2024

Cross-Cultural Interaction between Central Asia and South Korea

Cross culture is a concept that recognizes the differences among people of different nations, backgrounds, and ethnicities, and the importance of bridging them (Kopp, 2023). The different peoples of the world communicate with each other verbally and non-verbally, showing respect for different behaviors and activities; and taking part in those […]