The arts and cultural sector in Afghanistan is facing an unprecedented crisis, as the simple act of artistic expression has now effectively been criminalised by the Taliban. While the international ...
A meeting place for journalists, diplomats, politicians and warlords has functioned as a vital institution of Afghanistan’s ...
From Kyiv to Gaza to Baghdad, conflicts around the globe have silenced artists and left both works of art and cultural heritage sites in ruin. Driven by the transformative power of art and a desire to ...
KABUL (Pajhwok): Japan’s Ambassador to Kabul Masamoto Kenichi says Afghanistan’s ancient civilization carries global ...
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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“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 ...
If you think it’s impossible to underestimate the cultural significance of American Idol, go see British filmmaker Havana Marking’s documentary about its Afghani imitator, a smash hit TV show whose ...
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 ...
A Kansas City-based immigration attorney has filed a federal lawsuit challenging Mohammad Ali Dadfar’s warrantless arrest and ...