Culture and heritage

Oral histories

Recorded first-person accounts of Khmer life, and the archives and projects that collect and keep them.

Watercolor of a cassette recorder, a phone, a photo album and letters on a kitchen table
Illustration inspired by an audiovisual archive in Phnom Penh.

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Podcast episode

Cambodia's Composer on the World Stage

The composer Him Sophy on his path from a musical family through war and the Khmer Rouge years to study in Moscow, and on the works that brought Cambodian music to audiences abroad.

Podcast episode

Chef Nak: Food is Just a Hook

Chef Nak on cooking from age four, learning Cambodia's regional food, and why food is only the hook for how the world sees Cambodia.

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Archives and projects that hold Khmer oral histories and records.

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Collection

Cambodian Women's Oral History Project ប្រវត្តិសាស្ត្រដែលនិយាយដោយស្រ្តីកម្ពុជា

Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum

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This page was last edited on 23 October 2026, at 02:06.