Peshawar is a haven for Afghan artists who fled from the Taliban, which has banned music. A new policy of deportations by ...

Academy acceptance brings rare global recognition amid Taliban bans on cinema, music, and education NEW YORK, NY, ...

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 ...

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 ...

If there was music or dancing at a wedding, "the head of the family will be arrested and punished." Naghma and other Afghan musicians have kept their music alive from afar — and despite the Taliban's ...

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, ...

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 ...