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Three years ago, a group of young musicians from Afghanistan and their teachers fled Kabul to remake their lives as a community in northern Portugal. Now, they are touring the U.S.
Since its founding in 2010, the Afghanistan National Institute of Music has provided unique music training to Afghan children. In 2013, the group made a triumphant visit to the U.S. This month ...
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 ...
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 ...
Music is banned at home. But after fleeing the Taliban into exile, the Afghan Youth Orchestra is performing in Europe about loss, hope, and the power of music.
For the final story from our Sense of Place: Boston series, Fahim shares his story and talks about how he has used music to fight for change, support Afghan musicians and spread awareness.
How Wahid Bayar Turns Hip-Hop and Afghan Rhythms Into Award-Winning Theatre and a Platform for Youth
Theatre has a way of getting under your skin. It’s in those unexpected moments—a scene that makes you laugh harder than you expected, a sudden shift in lighting, or a rhythm you’ve never heard ...
After fleeing Taliban persecution in Afghanistan, many musicians found refuge in neighboring Pakistan. But now, amid a renewed deportation campaign by Islamabad, their future is once again ...
From Canada to Kabul: Afghan singer seeks to restore music education Amir Jan Saboori, one of the leading figures in Afghan folk music, has returned from his adopted home in Canada to visit ...
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Why Afghan women are singing to protest new Taliban ban
The lyrics, in Farsi, offer a message of hope -- I will fly one day, I will be free one day. Sulaimani is one of hundreds of Afghan women and allies around the world uploading videos of themselves ...
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 ...
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