Aryana Sayeed is more than a voice — she’s a movement. One of Afghanistan’s most celebrated contemporary music icons, Aryana is a powerhouse pop singer and fearless advocate for women’s rights.

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 ...

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An Afghan pop star and two Afghan Star hopefuls see their lives upended after the Taliban’s return. Afghan pop star Aryana Sayeed mentors two young women competing on Afghan Star, until their lives ...

LONDON (Reuters) - As Afghanistan prepares to go to the polls in August, a new type of democracy is sweeping the country -- a controversial Afghan "Pop Idol" show where even women have strutted their ...

*Pop star Aryana Sayeed recently escaped Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover, and she’s sharing more about her harrowing journey fleeing the country with Access Hollywood’s Zuri Hall. The singer ...

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, ...

THE LAST time Ahmad Fanoos performed in Afghanistan was at a lavish wedding in August 2021, days before America pulled out of its 20-year-long war against the Taliban. A well-known singer and former ...

This Thursday, August 8, American soprano Renée Fleming makes a special guest appearance with the Afghanistan Youth Orchestra (AYO) at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. In a free, livestreamed ...