EXCLUSIVE: Afghan Star is a music talent format that ran for 15 seasons in Afghanistan and shephered in a cultural revolution in the country. Launched four years after the fall of the Taliban, the ...
Three years ago, nearly 300 young Afghan musicians, their teachers and staff from their music school fled Afghanistan in fear for their lives after their country fell again to the Taliban. NPR ...
Three years ago, nearly 300 young Afghan musicians, their teachers and staff from their music school fled Afghanistan in fear for their lives after their country fell again to the Taliban. NPR ...
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 ...
NEW YORK — The Taliban tried to silence them, at times violently. The musicians from the Afghan Youth Orchestra have defiantly played on, and on Wednesday they took to one of the world’s most ...
In August 2021, when the Taliban once again seized power in Afghanistan, the entire Afghan Youth Orchestra managed to flee to Europe. For the past four years, the young musicians of the Afghanistan ...
After living for decades in exile, chased by war and religious bans, Naghma persists in singing to her people. By Carlotta Gall and Ruhullah Khapalwak Carlotta Gall and Ruhullah Khapalwak attended a ...