In exile, Afghan musicians struggle to preserve their craft as Pakistan's deportations push them toward the Taliban repression they fled.

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.

The Taliban's return to power in Afghanistan in 2021 meant not only the end of a government but also the imposition of an ...

Pianist Elham Fanoos was born in Afghanistan in 1997. During that time, music was banned under Taliban rule. But Elhams ...

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.

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.

Yi-Pin Lin, a tourist from the United States, and his Afghan guide, Hijrat Ullah Sahak, visiting a mountain lake in Band-e-Amir national park in Bamiyan Province in Afghanistan. With the war now ...

Fred Smith, nicknamed 'The Singing Diplomat", who has served in Afghanistan talks about a collection of his songs reflecting his feeling about the situation in Afghanistan and the misery of its people ...

With the Taliban's recapture of Afghanistan come grave concerns about the future of the country's first all-female orchestra and the arts industry as a whole.

PESHAWAR: Senior Afghan folk artist Barialay Wali has asked music buffs to ensure revival of traditional Pashto music along with quality poetry. He said that losing classics Pashto music ...