Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Zohra Ahmadi rehearses with the Afghan Youth Orchestra in Braga, Portugal, on July 29. (Marc Smith) NEW YORK — The Taliban tried ...

A collection of music from Afghanistan climbs to No. 12 on iTunes' World Music bestseller charts. Adam Gouttierre and Chris Becherer are two MBA students who recorded traditional music during a trip ...

International donors, including the U.S., have helped refurbish a conservatory in Kabul, but some of the students say they still face ... Music In Afghanistan A Sensitive Subject Afghanistan sits at a ...

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 ...

When the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in 2021, they quickly banned music, declaring it un-Islamic. Musicians faced threats, raids, and the destruction of their instruments. “Our homes were ...

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 ...

The Taliban announced in August that it had destroyed over 20,000 musical instruments in Afghanistan in the past year. The extremist group considers instruments un-Islamic and permits only ...

In Afghanistan, music is being silenced—not by the gentle passing of time, but by deliberate destruction. Photos recently appeared in the media showing piles of musical instruments reduced to ashes: ...

JALALABAD, Afghanistan — Mohammed Tariq was looking after his uncle’s music shop one recent afternoon when two bearded men with turbans pulled up on a motorcycle to deliver an ominous warning. “Where ...

For his fellow exiles, Sadiq Fitrat Nashenas, an 88-year-old star from a golden era, evokes the Afghanistan they left behind, and one that could have been. Sadiq Fitrat Nashenas in the Netherlands in ...