In this episode, Shahd Alasaly sits down with Abdulwali, a Uyghur writer, educator, and documenter whose family's story stretches across generations of resistance. From his grandfather serving in the First East Turkestan Republic of 1933, to his father imprisoned for ten years for owning Russian books, to his own arrest and 15 months of interrogation in 2013, Abdulweli shares a testimony that spans nearly a century of the same erasure repeating itself. Along the way, they talk about the family bookstore in Kashgar that led to his siblings' imprisonment, the leaked Xinjiang Police Files that named him as a "terrorist," the Uyghur language kindergartens he built to save a disappearing language, and the newest wave of state control, banned songs that carry Uyghur history, culture, and grief. A powerful conversation about memory, resistance, and re ...