The Peshawar High Court deferred a hearing concerning Afghan artists seeking protection from deportation to February 18. The musicians, fearing persecution in Afghanistan, argue their situation as ...

But then the Taliban moved in again in the 2021 and wiped out all music a second time. Many Afghan musicians fled across the ...

The Afghan music group “Salam” took the stage on Tuesday, the second day of the 41st Fajr International Music Festival, at Roudaki Hall, performing local and traditional pieces from Afghanistan.

The first time Arson Fahim saw a piano is seared into his memory. He was a young boy, an Afghan refugee in Pakistan, when he saw the film The Pianist. "I saw this movie and I was, like, 'Wow, how can ...

When the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in 2021, they quickly banned music, declaring it un-Islamic. Musicians faced threats, raids, and the destruction of their instruments. “Our homes were ...

KABUL, August 15 (UNHCR) - His songs evoke the harsh beauty of his native Afghanistan, a country he fled more than 12 years ago, but they were composed in a green and tidy suburb of Toronto, Canada, ...

FREMONT — Naghma, an Afghan singer who fled her country after receiving death threats, watched for years from afar as the Taliban outlawed music. Tapes were ripped from cassettes and hung like brown ...

Watch a short excerpt from the 24-minute documentary film included in the CD/DVD for 'Music of Central Asia Vol. 3: Homayun Sakhi: The Art of the Afghan Rubâb,' released by Smithsonian Folkways in ...

The Afghan Whigs are back with a new 7″ that features two covers: Poliça‘s “Fake Like” and Still Corners‘ “Downtown.” It’s their first new release in three years. Greg Dulli says, “Both of these songs ...