The Taliban’s morality police recently summoned four young men in the city of Herat in western Afghanistan for a “rehabilitation programme”. Their offence: “imitating actors” and “promoting foreign ...

At Omaha’s Afghan-American Integration Day celebration on Saturday, attendees waved the Afghan flag – the tri-color version in use prior to the Taliban’s 2021 takeover of the country – and hung it ...

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 ...

Afghanistan has a glorious history and a rich culture whose origin goes beyond the recorded history. The epic Mahabharata mentioned that Afghanistan was part of Gandhara which was ruled by a Hindu ...

“This is a matter of saving the culture of Afghanistan,” Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf said to a parliamentary committee this morning as he pled with the UK government to house dozens of ...

When the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in August 2021, Zahra Nader was pursuing a doctorate in Women and Gender studies ...

A select number of servicemembers are learning ways to become experts in Afghan culture through the Afghan Hands Program. “We don't land in Afghanistan as experts, but the vision is that we become ...

In this event recording, you'll hear from people working across music, film, writing, and other creative forms to safeguard Afghan culture. Each storyteller offers unique perspectives on cultural ...

War & Peace & War: Twenty Years in Afghanistan. By Andrew North. Ithaka Press; 352 pages; £25 Twenty Years: Hope, War and the Betrayal of an Afghan Generation. By Sune Rasmussen. Farrar, Straus & ...

The cultural heritage of a country is a fundamental factor in forming and shaping the identity of a nation. It becomes more significant in the context of a war-torn nation like Afghanistan.

Sarwat Najib empowers through fashion, while bringing Afghan culture to central Wisconsin. Originally from Kabul, fashion designer Sarwat Najib brings Afghan artistry to Stevens Point, Wisconsin. Her ...

Rachel Lehr says Afghan women are much less liberated than American women. “They value interdependence rather than the independence which we value in American culture,” said Lehr, a research scholar ...