Makhliyo Nazarova is this year’s Uzbek instructor for the summer language program at the American University of Central Asia. The instructor, who holds a degree from the Department of Foreign Languages at Osh State University, has extensive experience teaching foreign languages. She worked in the Department of World Languages at her alma mater and also taught in primary schools in and around Osh, Kyrgyzstan. She has written a number of publications concerning English, Kyrgyz and Russian. Apart from being a native speaker of Uzbek, Makhliyo Nazarova also knows English, Russian, Kyrgyz and Turkish.