Wood shavings littered the floor of Sakhi's cramped workshop in the Afghan city of Herat as another rubab, the national musical instrument of his homeland, took shape under his deft hands.

Sakhi has crafted two rubabs a month for decades, and he refuses to set down his tools even as a Taliban crackdown strangles music in Afghanistan. “I know only this work and I need to make money ...

FILE - An Afghan musician plays the harmonium in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sept. 16, 2021. Afghan musicians and singers in ...

This is what students and staff at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM) are now facing, after the Taliban said they would ban music following their takeover of the country.

A Pakistani court ordered a temporary halt to the deportation of 150 Afghan singers and musicians for at least two months.

The Taliban have burned musical instruments in Afghanistan, claiming music "causes moral corruption". Thousands of dollars worth of musical equipment went up in smoke on a bonfire on Saturday in ...

Wood shavings littered the floor of Sakhi's cramped workshop in the Afghan city of Herat as another rubab, the national ...

Without you, I have always been shoulder-to-shoulder with sorrow.” In August 2023, the Taliban banned music in Afghanistan, claiming it was morally corrupt. They beat and humiliated musicians ...

A few years after the Taliban were ousted in 2001, and with Afghanistan still in ruins, Ahmad Sarmast left his home in Melbourne, Australia, on a mission: to revive music in the country of his birth.

Representatives of the three institutions initially met with Afghan refugees living in the Parkview Gardens Apartments in East Riverdale. The immigrants told the Americans that one of their greatest ...

It’s part of our daily life, a reminder that art, literacy, poetry, civilisation, cinema, and music are the true winners,” she said, highlighting the unyielding spirit of Afghan women.