CONDÉ NAST TRAVELLER | JOURNEYING TO UZBEKISTAN TO FIND THE MISSING PIECES IN MY FAMILY HISTORY

Journeying to Uzbekistan to find the missing pieces in my family history by Sarah Khan.

Curious about the two-century gap in her family’s itinerant history, Sarah Khan sets out to uncover tales of those who came before.

“-Ambitious intellectuals living in the 15th century would have had their sights set on either Florence or Samarkand. For my forefather Syed Adham Rifaai, living in Jerusalem in 1470, the allure of Central Asia, the Arabic world’s crucible of finance, scholarship, creativity, and religion, would have been intoxicating.”